despejar

From des- +‎ pejar.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: des‧pe‧jar

despejar (first-person singular present despejo, first-person singular preterite despejei, past participle despejado)

1. (transitive) to empty
   • 1999, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, Rocco, page 151:

     Devagarinho, ela foi se abaixando para pegar uma saca a seus pés, despejou-a, e caíram na cama uns pedacinhos de madeira e gravetos, tudo que restava da fiel vassoura de Harry, enfim derrotada.

     Very slowly, she was kneeling down to get a sack on his feet, she emptied it, and some little fragments and chips of wood fell on the bed, everything what remained from the loyal Harry's broom, finally defeated.

2. (transitive) to pour (to cause to flow in a stream)
3. (transitive) to pour (to send forth as in a stream or a flood)
4. (transitive) to evict (to expel)

• → Spanish: despejar

Borrowed from Portuguese despejar, from des- + pejar, from peia (cord to tie down animals legs or feet, cf. impede), from Vulgar Latin pedea, from Latin pes, pedis, foot.

"peia", in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa [em linha], 2008-2024, https://dicionario.priberam.org/peia.

• IPA^(key): /despeˈxaɾ/ [d̪es.peˈxaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: des‧pe‧jar

despejar (first-person singular present despejo, first-person singular preterite despejé, past participle despejado)

1. to clear, to remove

   Despejó todas las dudas.

   She removed all doubts.

2. (sports, soccer) to clear (kicking a ball away from the goal one is defend)
3. (reflexive) to clear up
4. (reflexive) to get away, to leave
5. (reflexive) to get a clear mind, clear one's thoughts

• franquear

• “despejar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024