wuchern

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wuochern, from Old High German wuohharōn, derived from wuohhar (“harvest, revenue”), whence modern German Wucher (“usury”). Compare Dutch woekeren (“to practise usury; to overgrow”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈvuːxɐn/
  • Audio(file)

Verb

wuchern (weak, third-person singular present wuchert, past tense wucherte, past participle gewuchert, auxiliary haben)

  1. (intransitive) to practise usury; to usure
  2. (intransitive, + mit) to make profitable use of; usually in a non-financial sense
  3. (intransitive, of plants) to overgrow
  4. (intransitive, of cancer) to develop metastases

Conjugation

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Further reading
  • “wuchern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “wuchern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “wuchern” in Duden online
  • “wuchern” in OpenThesaurus.de
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.