disparar

Meaning

  1. to shoot, to fire (e.g. a weapon, a rocket)
  2. (reflexive) to rise, to go up, to skyrocket
  3. (reflexive) to go off, to be suddenly jolted into action

Frequency

B1
Hyphenated as
dis‧pa‧rar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/dispaˈɾaɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Latinizing alteration of Old Spanish desparar, from Latin disparāre (“separate”), from dis- + parō (“make equal”), although it was taken as the negative of parō (“prepare, arrange”) in Romance.

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