erledigen
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ʔɛɐ̯ˈleːdɪɡŋ̩], [ʔɛɐ̯ˈleːdɪɡən]
Audio (Austria) (file) Audio (file) - Hyphenation: er‧le‧di‧gen
Verb
erledigen (weak, third-person singular present erledigt, past tense erledigte, past participle erledigt, auxiliary haben)
- (obsolete) to free, to liberate, to release
- Synonyms: befreien, freisetzen
- 1668, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus Teutsch, Zweytes Buch, III. Capitel, page 127:
- Als mein Herr aufgestanden / schickte er seinen Leibschützen hin / mich auß dem Gänsstall zu holen / der brachte Zeitung / daß er die Thür offen / und ein Loch hinder dem Rigel mit einem Messer geschnitten gefunden / vermittelst dessen der Gefangene sich selbst erledigt hätte.
- When my master got up / he sent his body gunner / to get me out of the goose pen. / He brought the news / that he had found the door open / and a hole cut with a knife behind the bolt, / with the help of which the prisoner would have freed himself.
- to finish, to finalize, to complete, to see to, to handle with the result of completed work
- (colloquial) to cut off the influence of, to lower in status
- (slang) to kill, to murk, to duppy
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