deja
Meaning
-
rest (that remaining after cutting textiles)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
de‧ja
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈdexa/
Etymology
Deverbal from dejar.
New
dejar
- (transitive) to leave (to place)
- (transitive) to leave, to keep (to allow to continue)
- (transitive) to leave (to cause, result in)
- (transitive) to let, allow
- (transitive) to let go, put down (to release from one's grasp)
- (transitive) to drop off
- (transitive) to leave, to abandon, to dump
- (transitive) to give up, to lay off, to kick (colloquial)
- (transitive) to set, to put, to make (in certain phrases)
- (Spain,colloquial,transitive) to cut out (stop)
- (intransitive) to leave off
- (intransitive) to cease, stop
- (reflexive) to be left
- (reflexive) to let (oneself), to let oneself go (to cease to care about one's appearance)
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Sentences
Por ello , continuamente deja pasar oportunidades de asesinarla .
Therefore, he continually misses opportunities to murder her.