afslaan

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to decline, to reject
  2. (intransitive) to halt, to stop, to switch off
  3. (intransitive) to turn, to take off in a direction perpendicular to the one one was travelling in before
  4. (transitive) to strike off
  5. (dialectal, transitive) to beat up

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
af‧slaan
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɑfslaːn/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle Dutch afslaen. Equivalent to af + slaan.

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