desballestar
Catalan
Verb
desballestar (first-person singular present desballesto, first-person singular preterite desballestí, past participle desballestat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/
- (transitive) to take apart, dismantle
- 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 2, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
- Les van desballestar allà mateix. A l'interior d'una barra de ferro de la meva bicicleta van trobar-hi la carta.
- They took them apart right there. Inside an iron bar of my bicycle they found the letter.
- (transitive) to salvage, to cannibalise (remove parts from a defective machine to use elsewhere)
- (transitive) to put out of order, to wreck
- Synonyms: desajustar, desgavellar
- (reflexive) to break down, (of a person) to have a breakdown
- Sembla que alguna cosa s'ha desballestat a la moto, ja que la bateria és nova.
- It seems like something has broken down in the motorcycle since the battery is new.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- desballestador
- desballestament
- desballestat
Further reading
- “desballestar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /desbaʝesˈtaɾ/ [d̪ez.β̞a.ʝesˈt̪aɾ]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /desbaʎesˈtaɾ/ [d̪ez.β̞a.ʎesˈt̪aɾ]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /desbaʃesˈtaɾ/ [d̪ez.β̞a.ʃesˈt̪aɾ]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /desbaʒesˈtaɾ/ [d̪ez.β̞a.ʒesˈt̪aɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: des‧ba‧lles‧tar
Verb
desballestar (first-person singular present desballesto, first-person singular preterite desballesté, past participle desballestado)
- to unsettle
- 2015 November 6, “Entrevista”, in El País:
- Recuerda, además, Zanón que vivía con sus padres y los cuatro abuelos: "Siempre había alguien en casa, era una estructura familiar que nos protegía y que ahora no existe: hoy los tienes en la residencia y para pagarlo has de trabajar 24 horas… Es absurdo: hay que romper con eso, se desballestan muchas cosas ¿Un discurso conservador?
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Conjugation
Further reading
- “desballestar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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