Spanish

deshacer

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  1. (transitive) to undo, to unmake
  2. (transitive) to unpack
  3. (transitive) to break, to break up (e.g. a treaty, a business, a band, a united effort)
  4. (transitive) to take back (something done or said)
  5. (transitive) to reverse (a spell or curse)
  6. (reflexive) to come undone, to unravel
  7. (reflexive) to get rid of, to ditch, to dispose of, to dump (deshacerse de alguien o algo)
  8. (reflexive) to melt (deshacerse el hielo)
  9. (reflexive) to weed out (unwanted people)
  10. (reflexive) to feel/show a lot of (emotion)

Opposite of
hacer
Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
des‧ha‧cer
Pronounced as (IPA)
/desaˈθeɾ/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish desfazer, from Early Medieval Latin disfacere. Synchronically des- + hacer.

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