drücken.
to press, to push (a button/key; a finger or other object against something)
Meaning & usage
to press, to push (a button/key; a finger or other object against something)
Drück diesen Knopf nicht!
Die Feder drückt den Bolzen in die Kerbe.
to push, to press, to exert pressure, to click (with a mouse)
Das Wasser drückt gegen den Deich.
Drück nicht auf diesen Knopf!
to squeeze
Sie drückte liebevoll meine Hand.
Richten Sie die Waffe und drücken Sie den Abzug.
to hug
to lower, to depress (a value or statistic; especially as a result of wider circumstances or dynamics)
to shirk, to avoid
Er hat sich in letzter Zeit vor seinen Aufgaben gedrückt.
to shoot (to inject a drug)
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German drücken, from Old High German drucchen, from Proto-West Germanic *þrukkijan. Doublet of drucken (“to print”), which was originally a southern variant, later standardized in a specialized sense.
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