esbatanar

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Etymology[edit]

From de bat a bat (wide [open]).

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Verb[edit]

esbatanar (first-person singular present esbatano, first-person singular preterite esbataní, past participle esbatanat)

  1. (transitive) to open wide
    • 1965, Jaume Berenguer Amenós, Alexis Zorbàs:
      Un vell, que vorejava la seixantena, molt alt, magre, d'ulls esbatanats, tenia encastat el nas al vidre i em mirava.
      An old man, verging on sixty, very tall, thin, eyes wide open, had his nose pressed to the glass and watched me.

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