• RQG
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    21 year ago

    Umziehen - to change clothes, to move to a new home

    aufziehen - to tease or ridicule someone, to wind up a clockwork, to raise kids

    abziehen - to leave, to scam someone, to pull something off something else

    herziehen - to gossip about someone

    Anziehen - to attract something, to put on clothes

    Yeah there are some of these for ziehen. You might be on to something. But for many generic verbs there are many variants with vastly different meanings. Like Machen - to make, or tun - to do, gehen - to go.