verhaften

Signification

1. (intransitive,transitive,weak) to stop moving and instead stick, or make or become bound (more or less literally or figuratively)
2. (transitive,weak) to imprison, to put into confinement after judicial writ (the state of which is called Haft) (this is the most common signification in its strict definition, of which however legal laymen may deviate to mean any kind of government arrest)
3. (archaic,transitive,weak) to legally subject to eventual foreclosure

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/fɛɐ̯ˈhaftn̩/

Étymologie

ver- + haften