desahuciar

Spanish

Etymology

From des- + obsolete ahuciar (to reassure).

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desahuciar (first-person singular present desahucio, first-person singular preterite desahucié, past participle desahuciado)

  1. (transitive) to evict
    Synonym: desalojar
    • 2019 December 20, Alfonso L. Congostrina, “Los Mossos cargan contra los activistas que pretendían frenar un desahucio en Gràcia [The Mossos (Catalan regional police) clash with activists trying to stop an eviction in Gràcia]”, in El País[1]:
      Palomera ha criticado: “Estas ocho furgonetas de antidistrubios no son para desmontar una red de narcotráfico, son para desahuciar a una familia que no puede pagar el alquiler que le exigen. Con menores de edad”.
      Palomera criticised: “These eight riot police vans aren't for dismantling a drug-trafficking network, they're for evicting a family who can't pay the rent demanded of them. With minors.”
  2. (figurative, transitive) to give up (a lost cause, a terminal patient etc.)

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