Translations for „matchwood“ in the English » German Dictionary

ˈmatch·wood N no pl

matchwood

Kleinholz nt

to be smashed [or reduced] to matchwood

vollkommen zerstört werden

to be smashed [or reduced] to matchwood

zu Kleinholz gemacht werden inf

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be smashed [or reduced] to matchwood

vollkommen zerstört werden

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

The wood may be used for matchwood and plywood.

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Trees were uprooted and reduced to mere matchwood.

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There is a certainty about him that makes matchwood of any doubts about his capacity to shape the course of any game.

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The ice could have knocked us into matchwood.

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Alas, what made the tree famous, essentially also made it matchwood.

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Within five minutes, all that's left is a pile of matchwood, an iron brace and a tangle of rusting strings.

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