abwehren

B1 Verb frequency rank #10,309

What abwehren means

Verb

to fend off, to block
to fend off, to repel, to keep away
to refuse, to say no
to deflect (change the path of a shot or throw by unwittingly touching the ball)

Forms

abwehren · wehrt ab · wehrte ab · hat abgewehrt (+ Akkusativ) · separable

Pronunciation

abwehren in a sentence

Der Torwart wehrte den harten Schuss stark ab.

The keeper did well to block the fierce shot.

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abwehren is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #10,309 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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