verdorrt, verwelkt;

scharf anbraten, versengen

verb
1 the heat of the blast seared his face: scorch, burn, singe, char. See note at burn .
2 sear the meat before adding the other ingredients: flash-fry, seal, brown.
3 his betrayal had seared her terribly: hurt, wound, pain, cut to the quick, sting; distress, grieve, upset, trouble, harrow, torment, torture.
 

extremely inane 

 bloed, albern, toericht

adjective
the irritation of fatuous questions: silly, foolish, stupid, inane, idiotic, vacuous, asinine; pointless, senseless, ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd; informal: dumb, daft. antonym: sensible.
 

oede, ausgemergelt, hager, karg

adjective
1 a gaunt, graying man: haggard, drawn, thin, lean, skinny, spindly, spare, bony, angular, rawboned, pinched, hollow-cheeked, scrawny, scraggy, as thin as a rail, cadaverous, skeletal, emaciated, skin-and-bones; wasted, withered, etiolated; informal like a bag of bones; dated spindle-shanked. See note at thin . antonym: plump.
2 the gaunt ruin of the dark tower: bleak, stark, desolate, bare, gloomy, dismal, somber, grim, stern, harsh, forbidding, uninviting, cheerless. antonym: cheerful.
 

derb, grausam

bloody 

herummotzen, staenkern

verb
he's always griping about something: complain, grumble, grouse, protest, whine, bleat; informal moan, bellyache, beef, bitch, kvetch; Brit. whinge, kvetch.

noun
employees' gripes: complaint, grumble, grouse, grievance, objection; cavil, quibble, niggle; informal moan, beef, kvetch; Brit. whinge, .
 

aufsaugen, trinken

verb formal
1 they'd imbibed too much whiskey: drink, consume, quaff, guzzle, gulp (down); informal: knock back, down, swill, chug.
2 he had imbibed liberally: drink (alcohol), take strong drink, tipple; informal: booze, knock a few back, hit the bottle, bend one's elbow.
3 imbibing local history: assimilate, absorb, soak up, take in, drink in, digest, learn, acquire, grasp, pick up, familiarize oneself with.
 

Aufsitzerpflanze

noun Botany
a plant that grows on another plant but is not parasitic, such as the numerous ferns, bromeliads, air plants, and orchids growing on tree trunks in tropical rain forests.
 

Geschmeidigkeit 

lissom: adjective
(of a person or their body) thin, supple, and graceful.

verduennen, waessrig

1 strong bleach can be diluted with water: make weaker, weaken, water down; thin out, thin; doctor, adulterate; informal: cut.
2 the original plans have been diluted: weaken, moderate, tone down, water down.
 

beruhigen, betaeuben, ruhig stellen;

behaebig, gesetzt

sedate 1
verb
the patient had to be sedated: tranquilize, put under sedation, drug.

sedate 2
adjective
1 a sedate pace: slow, steady, dignified, unhurried, relaxed, measured, leisurely, slow-moving, easy, easygoing, gentle. antonym: fast.
2 he had lived a sedate life: calm, placid, tranquil, quiet, uneventful; boring, dull. antonym: exciting.
 

is an extreme form of being covetous

he did not really see her cupidity until they'd been married for several years: greed, avarice, avariciousness, acquisitiveness, covetousness, rapacity, materialism, Mammonism; informal: money-grubbing. antonym: generosity. 

abwaegen, abmessen, justieren

Breite, Dicke, Masstab, Teilung

noun
1 the temperature gauge: measuring device, measuring instrument, meter, measure; indicator, dial, scale, display.
2 exports are an important gauge of economic activity: measure, indicator, barometer, point of reference, guide, guideline, touchstone, yardstick, benchmark, criterion, test, litmus test.
3 guitar strings of a different gauge: size, diameter, thickness, width, breadth; measure, capacity, magnitude; bore, caliber.

verb
1 astronomers can gauge the star's intrinsic brightness: measure, calculate, compute, work out, determine, ascertain; count, weigh, quantify, put a figure on, pin down.
2 it is difficult to gauge how effective the ban was: assess, evaluate, determine, estimate, form an opinion of, appraise, get the measure of, judge, guess; informal: guesstimate, size up.
 

Delle, Furche

ausmeisseln

a tunnel had been gouged out of the mountain: scoop, hollow, excavate; cut, dig, scrape, scratch. 

finster dreinblicken

muerrischer Gesichtsausdruck

noun
the scowl on his face: frown, glower, glare, grimace, black look; informal: dirty look.

verb
she scowled at him: glower at, frown at, glare at, grimace at, lower at, look daggers at, give someone a black look; make a face at, pull a face, turn the corner's of one's mouth down at, pout at; informal: give someone a dirty look. antonym: smile, grin.
 

entzuecken, hinreissen

enraptured by the music: delight, enchant, captivate, charm, enthrall, entrance, bewitch, beguile, transport, thrill, excite, exhilarate, intoxicate, take someone's breath away; informal: bowl over, blow someone's mind; literary: ravish. 

befeuchten; daempfen, entmutigen

1 the rain dampened her face: moisten, damp, wet, dew, water; literary: bedew . antonym: dry.
2 nothing could dampen her enthusiasm: lessen, decrease, diminish, reduce, moderate, damp, put a damper on, throw cold water on, cool, discourage; suppress, extinguish, quench, stifle, curb, limit, check, restrain, inhibit, deter. antonym: heighten.
 

dissemble

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dissimulate

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disseminate

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dissimilate 

dissemble
verb
she's being honest and has no need to dissemble dissimulate, pretend, feign, act, masquerade, sham, fake, bluff, posture, hide one's feelings, put on a false front.
 

dissimulate
verb
she had learned the power of dissimulating to get what she wanted pretend, deceive, feign, act, dissemble, masquerade, pose, posture, sham, fake, bluff, hide one's feelings, be dishonest, put on a false front, lie.

verb
much of our funding is used to disseminate information where it is most needed spread, circulate, distribute, disperse, promulgate, propagate, publicize, communicate, pass on, put about, make known. See note at scatter .

dissimilate: make sth unlike or dissimilar 

entheiligen, entweihen, schaenden

verb
invaders desecrated the temple: violate, profane, defile, debase, degrade, dishonor; vandalize, damage, destroy, deface.
 

Echtheit, Plausibilitaet, Wahrscheinlichkeit

the verisimilitude of her performance is gripping: realism, believability, plausibility, authenticity, credibility, lifelikeness. 

entsetzlich, unerhoert, ungeheuerlich

an egregious error of judgment: shocking, appalling, terrible, awful, horrendous, frightful, atrocious, abominable, abhorrent, outrageous; monstrous, heinous, dire, unspeakable, shameful, unforgivable, intolerable, dreadful; formal: grievous.
antonym: marvelous.
 

analysieren

verb [ trans. ]
analyze (a sentence) into its parts and describe their syntactic roles.
• Computing analyze (a string or text) into logical syntactic components, typically in order to test conformability to a logical grammar.
• examine or analyze minutely : he has always been quick to parse his own problems in public.
 

Blabla, Geschwaetz, Wortschwall

Professor Chin's verbiage is tiresome: verbosity, wordiness, prolixity, long-windedness, loquacity, rigmarole, circumlocution, superfluity, periphrasis. 

Funke, kleine Menge, Mindestmass

I'd like to leave while I still have a modicum of my self-respect: small amount, particle, speck, fragment, scrap, crumb, grain, morsel, shred, dash, drop, pinch, soupçon, jot, iota, whit, atom, smattering, scintilla, hint, suggestion, tinge; informal: smidgen, tad. 

einstreuen, zerstreuen

1 giant poppies were interspersed among the rocks: scatter, disperse, spread, strew, dot, sprinkle, pepper.
2 the beech trees are interspersed with pines: intermix, mix, mingle, diversified, punctuate.
 

Wappen

1 a shield or emblem bearing a coat of arms.
2 (also escutcheon plate) a flat piece of metal for protection and often ornamentation, around a keyhole, door handle, or light switch.
 

verprassen, verschwenden

they squander their profits on expensive cars: waste, misspend, misuse, throw away, fritter away, spend recklessly, spend unwisely, spend like water; informal blow, go through, splurge, drop, pour down the drain. antonym: manage, make good use of, save. 

friedvoll, ruhig

Eisvogel

the halcyon days of our youth: happy, golden, idyllic, carefree, blissful, joyful, joyous, contented; flourishing, thriving, prosperous, successful; serene, calm, tranquil, peaceful. See note at calm .