aplastar
Meaning
- (transitive) to crush, smash, squash
- (transitive) to flatten
- (transitive) to squash (to put down by force or intimidation)
- (Colombia, Ecuador, El-Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, colloquial, intransitive, pronominal) to sit comfortably, especially by slumping down on a seat
Concepts
knead dough
press together
trample on
tread down
tread on
make wider
tramp down
crush out
Synonyms
dar una paliza
hacer tortillas
golpear con piedra
moler ásperamente
agrupar apretadamente
hacer láminas
ejercer presión
Translations
Frequency
Hyphenated as
a‧plas‧tar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/aplasˈtaɾ/
Etymology
From a- + plasta (“flattened object”, noun) + -ar.
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