verschlagen

B2 Verb / Adjective frequency rank #10,460

What verschlagen means

Verb

to drive, to strand; to shlep; to bring (causing difficulty, often to somewhere someone didn't want to go)
to suddenly take away
to lose (one's page in a book)
to beat together

Adjective

devious
disingenuous, self-serving

Forms

verschlagen · verschlägt · verschlug · hat verschlagen (+ Akkusativ) | Adjective

Pronunciation

verschlagen in a sentence

Sein Lächeln wirkte verschlagen.

His smile seemed devious.

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verschlagen is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #10,460 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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