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wuchern

wuchern

German

Verb

wuchern (third-person singular simple present wuchert, past tense wucherte, past participle gewuchert, auxiliary haben)

  1. (intransitive) to practise usury
  2. (intransitive, + mit) to make profitable use of; usually in a non-financial sense
  3. (intransitive, of plants) to overgrow
  4. (intransitive, of cancer) to develop metastases

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • entwuchern
  • überwuchern
  • verwuchern