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tovenaar substantief | sorcerer [sorcerers](magician/wizard drawing upon natural powers) |
tovenaar substantief {m} | conjurer [conjurers](one who conjures) magician [magicians](practitioner of allegedly supernatural magic) wizard [wizards](person skilled with magic) |
tovenares substantief | enchantress [enchantresses](attractive woman skilled at using magic) sorceress [sorceresses](female wizard) |
tovenares substantief {f} | hag [hags](witch, sorceress, enchantress) witch [witches](person who uses magic) |
tovenarij substantief | magic [magics](ritual associated with supernatural magic or mysticism) |
tovenarij substantief {f} | sorcery [sorceries](magical power) |
uitdoven werkwoord | douse [doused, dousing, douses](put out; extinguish) extinguish [extinguished, extinguishing, extinguishes](to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench) hose down(To put out or reduce a fire) quench [quenched, quenching, quenches](to extinguish or put out) smother [smothered, smothering, smothers](to extinguish or deaden) |
veelbelovend bijvoeglijk naamwoord | promising(showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion) |
verdoven werkwoord | anesthetize [anesthetized, anesthetizing, anesthetizes](administer anesthesia) befuddle [befuddled, befuddling, befuddles](stupefy) deafen [deafened, deafening, deafens](to make deaf) numb [numbed, numbing, numbs](to cause to become numb) stun [stunned, stunning, stuns](to incapacitate) stupefy [stupefied, stupefying, stupefies](dull the senses or capacity to think) tranquilize [tranquilized, tranquilizing, tranquilizes](to use a drug to sedate a person or animal) |
verdovend bijvoeglijk naamwoord | anesthetic(reducing pain sensitivity) |
verloven werkwoord | betroth [betrothed, betrothing, betroths](to promise to give in marriage) engage [engaged, engaging, engages](to bind through legal or moral obligation) |
zeeroven werkwoord | pirate [pirated, pirating, pirates](appropriate by piracy) |
zich verloven werkwoord | betroth [betrothed, betrothing, betroths](to promise to take as a future spouse) |
zich veroorloven werkwoord | afford [afforded, affording, affords](to incur, stand, or bear) |
zien is geloven phrase | seeing is believing(you need to see something to believe it) |
zijn hoofd boven water houden werkwoord | keep one's head above water(survive) |
zijn oren geloven werkwoord | believe one's ears(to believe that something which one hears is truly the case) |