esverar

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [əz.bəˈɾa]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [əz.vəˈɾa]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ez.veˈɾaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

esverar (first-person singular present esvero, first-person singular preterite esverí, past participle esverat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

  1. (transitive) to scare, to frighten
    Synonym: espantar
    • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 4, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
      –Aquesta nit plourá –va comentar mirant el cel–. Això els esvera.
      "It'll rain tonight," he commented while looking at the sky. "It scares them."

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