desahuciar
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Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From des- + obsolete ahuciar (“to reassure”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /desauˈθjaɾ/ [d̪e.sau̯ˈθjaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /desauˈsjaɾ/ [d̪e.sau̯ˈsjaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: de‧sahu‧ciar
Verb
[edit]desahuciar (first-person singular present desahucio, first-person singular preterite desahucié, past participle desahuciado)
- (transitive) to evict
- Synonym: desalojar
- 2019 December 20, Alfonso L. Congostrina, “Los Mossos cargan contra los activistas que pretendían frenar un desahucio en Gràcia [The Mossos (Catalan regional police) clash with activists trying to stop an eviction in Gràcia]”, in El País[1]:
- Palomera ha criticado: “Estas ocho furgonetas de antidistrubios no son para desmontar una red de narcotráfico, son para desahuciar a una familia que no puede pagar el alquiler que le exigen. Con menores de edad”.
- Palomera criticized: “These eight riot police vans are not for dismantling a drug-trafficking network, they're for evicting a family who can't pay the rent demanded of them. With minors.”
- (figurative, transitive) to give up (a lost cause, a terminal patient etc.)
Usage notes
[edit]- Conjugations from the models of desahucío, desahucías, etc., and desahúcio, desahúcias, etc. are proscribed.[1]
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of desahuciar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of desahuciar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “desahuciar”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Uncertainties] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “desahuciar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025