drukken
Meaning
-
- (intransitive) to press
- (transitive) to print
- (reflexive) to hide (by pressing its body close to the ground)
- (colloquial,reflexive) to shirk
- (intransitive) to defecate
Concepts
press
squeeze
oppress
pinch
squash
strain
tighten
lock up
condense
confine
enclose
put away
rack
shut up
stow
strech
stress
tense
wind up
depress
push
accelerate
advance
affirm
dwell
further
hasten
hurry
insist
maintain
promote
speed up
urge
clench
be
by
characterise
characterize
form
formative
its
leave
mark
marked
mold
mould
on
shape
their
turn
pledge
promise
keep
shake hands
stay
crowd
force
Frequency
Hyphenated as
druk‧ken
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈdrʏkə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch drucken, from Old Dutch *thrucken, from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan, from Proto-Germanic *þrukkijaną.
New
druk
-
- (masculine) pressure
- (masculine) pressure
- (masculine) edition, printing (of a publication)
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