entleiben
German, verb
entleiben is spelled E-N-T-L-E-I-B-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written German, the 571,872nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entleiben is a German verb meaning “to kill” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Entleiben is a different word: “gerund of entleiben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “um das Leben bringen”.
What does entleiben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to kill
noun
- 1
neutergerund of entleiben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. um das Leben bringen 2. sich selbst das Leben nehmen
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 entleiben
- entleibt present singular third-person
- entleibte past
- haben auxiliary
- entleibend participle present
- entleibe first-person indicative present
- entleibst indicative present second-person
- entleibest second-person singular subjunctive
- entleibet plural second-person subjunctive
- entleibten first-person indicative plural
- entleibtest indicative preterite second-person
- entleibtet indicative plural preterite
- entleib imperative second-person singular
- habe entleibt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben entleibt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- entleib! imperative singular
- entleibe! imperative singular
- entleibt! imperative plural
- entleibt haben transitive active infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is entleiben in German?
entleiben appears about once in every 83 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).