stauchen

== German == === Etymology === Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle High German stūchen (“to cup, bleed”), from Middle High German stūche (“cupping glass”). Alternatively, perhaps from Middle Low German stûken (“to push, compress, arrange flax in small bundles for drying”), from Middle Low German stûke (“bundle of flax set up to dry, bunch of grain”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈʃtaʊ̯xn̩] Hyphenation: stau‧chen === Verb === stauchen (weak, third-person singular present staucht, past tense stauchte, past participle gestaucht, auxiliary haben) to compress (with deformation) (metalworking) to upset; to perform a forming operation that increases a workpiece's diameter by decreasing its length. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Stauchen, Stauchung verstauchen, zusammenstauchen ==== Related terms ==== Stauche === Further reading === “stauchen” in Duden online “stauchen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “stauchen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “stauchen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.