Verb

entziehen

to revoke (a right or permission)

B1 rank #4,460

Meanings

Verb

to revoke (a right or permission)
to withdraw (to remove, stop providing)
to extract (to withdraw by a mechanical or chemical process)
to shirk, escape, avoid (one's responsibilities, the consequences of one's actions, etc.)

In a sentence

Die Stadt entzog ihm die Erlaubnis.

The city revoked his permit.

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Forms

entziehen · entzieht · entzog · hat entzogen (+ Akkusativ)

entziehen is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #4,460 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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