ausheben
German, verb
ausheben is spelled A-U-S-H-E-B-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 51,196th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ausheben is a German verb meaning “to excavate, to trench, to ditch, to dig (any kind of hole in the ground)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ausheben is a different word: “gerund of ausheben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein Loch ins Erdreich graben”.
What does ausheben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to excavate, to trench, to ditch, to dig (any kind of hole in the ground)
- 2
to raid, to bust, to break up (a criminal gang)
- 3
to lift the opponent off their feet in order to bring them down
- 4
to locate, to dig out, to extract (a document, a record, a contract etc.)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of ausheben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ein Loch ins Erdreich graben 2. eine kriminelle Gruppe unschädlich machen 3. Post aus dem Briefkasten nehmen
noun: 1. das Graben eines Lochs ins Erdreich
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ausheben
- hebt aus present singular third-person
- hob aus past
- hub aus archaic past
- ausgehoben participle past
- höbe aus past subjunctive
- hübe aus archaic past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- 6 strong
- aushebend participle present
- auszuheben infinitive infinitive-zu
- hebe aus first-person indicative present
- heben aus first-person indicative plural
- hebst aus indicative present second-person
- hebest aus second-person singular subjunctive
- hebet aus plural second-person subjunctive
- hoben aus first-person indicative plural
- huben aus archaic first-person indicative
- höben aus first-person formal plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ausheben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ausheben in German?
ausheben appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).