desafío

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See also: desafio and desafió

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /desaˈfio/ [d̪e.saˈfi.o]

Etymology 1

Deverbal from desafiar.

Noun

desafío m (plural desafíos)

  1. challenge
    • Llenósele la fantasía de todo aquello que leía en los libros, así de encantamentos como de pendencias, batallas, desafíos, heridas, requiebros, amores, tormentas y disparates imposibles; y asentósele de tal modo en la imaginación que era verdad toda aquella máquina de aquellas soñadas invenciones que leía, que para él no había otra historia más cierta en el mundo.
      His fancy grew full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impossible nonsense; and it so possessed his mind that the whole fabric of invention and fancy he read of was true, that to him no history in the world had more reality in it.
    Synonym: reto
  2. defiance, provocation
    Synonym: provocación

Etymology 2

Verb

desafío

  1. first-person singular present indicative of desafiar

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