Translation for "blättert ab" to english

Blättert ab

verb

• flake
• peel
• flake off
• scale

Translation examples

flake verb

Schmale Streifen blätterten ab.
Strips of it were flaking off.

Es blätterte ab und sah lächerlich aus.
They were flaking and looked ridiculous.

Blaue Farbe blätterte ab und fiel ins Gras.
A few blue flakes fell down into the grass.

Das Rücklicht war kaputt, und der Lack blätterte ab.
The lights had been shattered, and paint was chipping away in jagged flakes.

Der zerstörte Stoff blätterte ab wie verkohltes Papier.
The tortured fabric flaked away like charred paper.

die Fensterrahmen der Scheune blätterten ab, die Innenwände hatten Flecken.
the window frames of the barn were flaking, the inside walls were stained.

Im Obergeschoß schloß die Frau die Fenster, Farbe blätterte ab.
Upstairs the woman pulled down the windows, paint flaked away.

Der Putz an den Fassaden blätterte ab, die Eisengitter an den Balkonen waren kaputt oder fehlten.
Their plaster facades were flaking off, the iron grilles on the balconies broken or missing.

Die langen roten Fingernägel waren eingerissen und abgebrochen, der Lack blätterte ab.
Her long red fingernails were torn and broken, and the polish was flaking away.

peel verb

Die gestreifte Tapete blätterte ab.
The stripedy wallpaper peeled.

Einige Rindenecken blätterten ab.
Some of the rectangles of bark were peeling down.

Das Leder war spröde geworden und blätterte ab;
The leather had cracked and peeled;

Zerfetzte Teile des Rumpfes blätterten ab.
Ragged sections of hull peeled back.

Die rote Farbe am Tor blätterte ab.
The red paint on the gate was peeling badly.

Farbe blätterte ab und warf in der Hitze Blasen.
Paint peeled and beaded in the heat.

die Farbe blätterte ab und das Holz wurde rissig.
the paint peeled away, and the wood cracked.

Die Schwelle war abgetreten, die braune Farbe blätterte ab.
The threshold was worn down, the brown paint peeling.

Die alte, grüne Farbe blätterte ab.
The old, green paint was peeling and had large patches scraped off.

Der Anstrich blätterte ab, und der Rasen war stellenweise gelb.
The paint was starting to peel and the lawn was yellow-, ing in patches.

flake off verb

Ich fand es bedrückend, wie schäbig unsere Häuser waren: Risse liefen durch die Decke, trockene Farbenblasen blätterten ab, wo Feuchtigkeit in die Wände gesickert war.
I was struck at first by how shabby our house appeared, with cracks running through its ceilings and dry bubbles of paint flaking off where dampness had entered its walls.

scale verb

Er sah Flammen auf seiner Backbordseite, und Metallplatten blätterten ab wie Fischschuppen.
He saw flame on his port side, sections of metal plating slipping off like fish scales.

Unter der angefeuchteten Stelle löste sich eine kleine Flocke glasigen Materials und blätterte ab.
Beneath the wetted area a little flake of the glassy material would crack and scale away.