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waidwund or weidwund (adj)
   wounded in the gut/stomach (hunting); fatally wounded (fig./lit.)

Oskar Lafontaine, der erste prominente Politiker, der seine Partei waidwund zurückließ, war 1995 zum SPD-Vorsitzenden gewählt worden. (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Oskar Lafontaine, the first prominent politician to leave his party behind, mortally wounded, had been elected SPD chairman in 1995. (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)

Note: In 2005 Lafontaine left the SPD and switched to what later became Die Linkspartei (the Left Party).

Related Words:
der Waidmann/Weidmann hunter, huntsman
Das ist nicht waidmännisch. That is not done in hunting.
der Waidwund-Schuss gut/belly shot, fatal shot (hunting)

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