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English-German translation for: Elend
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German-English Dictionary: Elend
elend
seedy {adj}
abject {adj}
woeful {adj}
sordid {adj}
woefully {adv}
wretched {adj}
miserably {adv}
miserable {adj}
calamitous {adj}
wretchedly {adv}
calamitously {adv}
baleful {adj} [archaic] [wretched, miserable]
balefully {adv} [archaic] [wretched, miserable]
elend [gemein]
mean {adj}
elend [niederträchtig]
caitiff {adj} [archaic]
elend [Zustand, Gegend, etc.]
forlorn {adj}
Elend {n}
need
misery
penury
squalor
distress
woefulness
sordidness
affliction
unhappiness
destitution
forlornness
wretchedness
calamitousness
hardship [condition]
im Elend
in need
squalidly {adv}
elend aussehen
to look seedy
elend verkommen
to dwindle into misery
soziales Elend {n}
social hardship
tiefstes Elend {n}
abject misery
äußerstes Elend {n}
abject misery
langes Elend {n} [fig.] [ugs.]
stretch [Am.] [coll.]
Elend sucht Elend. [selten]
proverb Misery loves company. [People feeling sad want the people they are with to also feel sad.]
das Elend lindern
to alleviate the misery
sich elend fühlen
to feel wretched
to feel miserable
to feel ropy [Br.]
to feel ropey [Br.]
jdn. ins Elend stürzen
to engulf sb. in misery
Elend über jdn. bringen
to bring misery upon sb.
Glanz {m} und Elend
glamour and gloom [misery]
Elend {n} der Armenviertel
squalidness of the slums
Christus {m} im Elend
artbibl.relig. Christ in distress
(wie) ein Häufchen Elend [ugs.]
(looking) a picture of misery
Ihm war elend zumute.
idiom He felt as sick as a parrot. [Br.]
Elend im Gefolge haben
to bring misery in its train
jdn. aus seinem Elend befreien
to put sb. out of his / her misery
Kampf {m} gegen das Elend
struggle against misery
Es ist schon ein Elend mit ihm.
It's no end of trouble with him.
aussehen wie ein Häufchen Elend
to look like a picture of misery
das Elend der Armen beschönigen
to whitewash the misery of the poor
nur noch ein Häufchen Elend sein
to be a picture of misery
Elend und Glanz der Übersetzung
Fphilos. The Misery and the Splendor of Translation [José Ortega y Gasset]
Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches [Bertolt Brecht]
Flit.theatre Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
Flit.theatre The Private Life of the Master Race
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