diff --git a/po/Makevars b/po/Makevars
index 67434a5f..4e2ea72a 100644
--- a/po/Makevars
+++ b/po/Makevars
@@ -17,3 +17,6 @@ COPYRIGHT_HOLDER = Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 # This is the list of locale categories, beyond LC_MESSAGES, for which the
 # message catalogs shall be used.  It is usually empty.
 EXTRA_LOCALE_CATEGORIES =
+
+# Don't do fuzzy matching when merging the PO files against the POT file.
+MSGMERGE_OPTIONS = --no-fuzzy-matching
diff --git a/po/update_linguas.sh b/po/update_linguas.sh
index c52f5b9c..17a90d21 100755
--- a/po/update_linguas.sh
+++ b/po/update_linguas.sh
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ fi
 echo "Regenerating POT file and remerging and recompiling PO files..."
 make update-po
 
-echo "Removing the dead weight of obsolete translations..."
+echo "Removing the dead weight of obsolete and fuzzy translations..."
 for pofile in *.po; do
-	msgattrib --no-obsolete $pofile >trimmed.po || exit 4
+	msgattrib --no-obsolete --no-fuzzy $pofile >trimmed.po || exit 4
 	mv trimmed.po $pofile || exit 4
 done