aussetzen

(aus verb)

Word type: aus verb
Based on: setzen

Perfect (spoken past): hat ausgesetzt

Preterite (written past): setzte aus

Meanings

to skip a turn

(Mostly in board and card games, but you can find it in other contexts as well.)

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to maroon, to plant, to abandon

("etwas/jemanden aussetzen")

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to expose something/someone to something

("etwas /jemanden (Acc) einer Sache ^(Dative) aussetzen" - works for phyiscal as well as mental forces and usually implies some strain. )

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to criticize something about something/someone

("etwas aussetzen an^+Dative" )

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Prefix Verbs Explained - "aussetzen"

Aussetzen has an eclectic set of translations: Expose, suspend, plant, criticize, maroon, skip. Placing "outside" in some way is the core idea, though.

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Word Family

Root: *sed-

The core idea of this root was

sitting

Today, the majority of members of the family are about a somewhat broader sense of “putting down”.
Here’s a little (incomplete) overview:

to sit, seat (“sitting”)
saddle (“seat”)
to set (“putting down”)
settle (“sitting down for camping”)
soil (“where your settlement is”)
session (“the sitting”)
seance (“the sitting”)
siege (“sitting in front”)
sediment (“dust settling”)
possess (“sit on”)
obsess (“sit on, occupy”)
sedate, sedative (“settling”)
assist, assistent (Originally, a person sitting next to the judge)
assess (see “assist”, originally an assistant responsible for determining fines)
size (see “assess”)
cathedral (Originally, it was a scholar’s chair, the root is the “thed”- part)
chair (comes from cathedral)

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