estropear

• Hyphenation: es‧tro‧pe‧ar
• Homophone: estropiar

From es- +‎ tropel +‎ -ar.

estropear (first-person singular present estropeio, first-person singular preterite estropeei, past participle estropeado)

1. (Portugal) to knock; to knock loudly at the door
   • 1879, Adolfo Coelho, “A Bella-menina”, in Contos Populares Portuguezes, P. Plantier Editor, page 70:

     Chegou lá e viu uma casa grande e estropeou á porta; não lhe fallaram; tornou a estropear; não lhe fallaram.

     He arrived there and he saw a big house and knocked at the door; no one answered; he went back to knocking on the door; no one answered.

2. to make noise

estropear (first-person singular present estropeio, first-person singular preterite estropeei, past participle estropeado)

1. obsolete spelling of estropiar

Borrowed from Italian stroppiare, from Latin turpis whence (English turpitude).

• IPA^(key): /estɾopeˈaɾ/ [es.t̪ɾo.peˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧tro‧pe‧ar

estropear (first-person singular present estropeo, first-person singular preterite estropeé, past participle estropeado)

1. (transitive) to ruin, spoil

   Synonyms: arruinar, echar a perder, deteriorar

2. (pronominal) to break down (to stop working)

   Synonym: averiar

   Se me ha estropeado la lavadora.

   My washing machine broke down.

3. (pronominal) to go bad, spoil (of food)

   La piña se ha estropeado.

   The pineapple has gone bad.

• “estropear”, 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