verhunzen
German, verb
verhunzen is spelled V-E-R-H-U-N-Z-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 127,251st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verhunzen is a German verb meaning “to botch up, to ruin (to destroy or make unpleasant through carelessness or incompetence, especially of media and art)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verhunzen is a different word: “gerund of verhunzen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas zum Schlechteren hin verändern, etwas für einen bestimmten Zweck unbrauchbar machen”.
What does verhunzen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to botch up, to ruin (to destroy or make unpleasant through carelessness or incompetence, especially of media and art)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verhunzen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas zum Schlechteren hin verändern, etwas für einen bestimmten Zweck unbrauchbar machen
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 verhunzen
- verhunzt present singular third-person
- verhunzte past
- haben auxiliary
- verhunzend participle present
- verhunze first-person indicative present
- verhunzest second-person singular subjunctive
- verhunzet plural second-person subjunctive
- verhunzten first-person indicative plural
- verhunztest indicative preterite second-person
- verhunztet indicative plural preterite
- verhunz imperative second-person singular
- habe verhunzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verhunzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verhunz! imperative singular
- verhunze! imperative singular
- verhunzt! imperative plural
- verhunzt haben active infinitive perfect
- verhunzt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verhunzen in German?
verhunzen appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).