verschmachten
German, verb
verschmachten is a German verb meaning “to swelter, languish (especially due to thirst, hunger or heat)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verschmachten is a different word: “gerund of verschmachten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “verhungern und/oder verdursten, an einer Entbehrung zugrunde gehen”.
What does verschmachten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swelter, languish (especially due to thirst, hunger or heat)
in der sengenden Hitze verschmachten
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verschmachten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. verhungern und/oder verdursten, an einer Entbehrung zugrunde gehen 2. in Sehnsucht nach etwas oder jemandem zugrunde gehen
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 verschmachten
- verschmachtet present singular third-person
- verschmachtete past
- sein auxiliary
- verschmachtend participle present
- verschmachte first-person indicative present
- verschmachtest indicative present second-person
- verschmachteten first-person indicative plural
- verschmachtetest indicative preterite second-person
- verschmachtetet indicative plural preterite
- verschmacht imperative second-person singular
- bin verschmachtet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sind verschmachtet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verschmacht! imperative singular
- verschmachte! imperative singular
- verschmachtet! imperative plural
- verschmachtet sein active infinitive perfect
- zu verschmachten active extended infinitive
- verschmachtet zu sein active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verschmachten in German?
verschmachten appears about once in every 39 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).