verzweifeln
Meaning
to despair
Concepts
despair
lose heart
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ver‧zwei‧feln
Pronounced as (IPA)
/feʁˈtsvaɪ̯fəln/
Etymology
From Middle High German verzwīveln (12th century). By surface analysis, ver- + zweifeln (“to doubt”). Compare Dutch vertwijfelen, Swedish förtvivla, etc.
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