incautarse
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inkauˈtaɾse/ [ĩŋ.kau̯ˈt̪aɾ.se]
- Rhymes: -aɾse
- Syllabification: in‧cau‧tar‧se
Verb
incautarse (first-person singular present me incauto, first-person singular preterite me incauté, past participle incautado)
- (reflexive) to confiscate, impound
- (reflexive, followed by de) to seize, commandeer
- 1931, Jaime de Borbón y Borbón-Parma, A los Jefes Regionales de la Comunión Tradicionalista:
- se incautó del poder sin derramamiento de sangre
- he seized power without any bloodshed
Conjugation
Conjugation of incautarse (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Related terms
Further reading
- “incautarse”, 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