abfangen

== German == === Etymology === ab- +‎ fangen === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʔapfaŋən/ Hyphenation: ab‧fan‧gen === Verb === abfangen (class 7 strong, third-person singular present fängt ab, past tense fing ab, past participle abgefangen, auxiliary haben) (transitive) to intercept, to stop (to prevent a strike or projectile from reaching its target) Die Rakete konnte abgefangen werden. ― The missile could be intercepted. (transitive) to intercept, to catch (to interact with a person while they are on their way to somewhere, chiefly with the intent to distract, stop or get something from them) (transitive) to catch, to pull out of a dive (a plane) (reflexive) to catch oneself, to break one's fall (to stop or slow one's fall by holding on to something or bracing against a surface) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Abfangen Abfangjäger ==== References ==== Michael Robert; Karin Doerr (2002), Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi-German: An English lexicon of the language of the Third Reich, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 49 === Further reading === “abfangen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “abfangen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “abfangen” in Duden online “abfangen” in OpenThesaurus.de