quiebra
Meaning
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- (feminine) crack
- (feminine) ravine
- (feminine) bankruptcy
Concepts
bankruptcy
failure
chink
chasm
damage
loss
debt
indebtedness
bankrupt
break
fracture
recidivism
relaps
relapse
Frequency
Hyphenated as
quie‧bra
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkjebɾa/
Etymology
Deverbal from quebrar. Compare English crevice.
New
quebrar
- (transitive) to break, to snap, to shatter (to smash or rupture)
- (figuratively,transitive) to break (often in legal contexts)
- (transitive) to bend, flex or twist
- (intransitive) to fail; to go broke; to become bankrupt; to go out of business; to crash, to go bust, to go under (used in political, economic and business/financial/investment contexts)
- (intransitive) to break up
- (Colombia,El-Salvador,Guatemala,Mexico,intransitive,slang) to kill
- (reflexive) to crack, to break, to shatter (putting the onus on the thing cracking itself, absolving any sentient subject of responsibility)
- (figuratively,reflexive) to crack, to break (e.g. crack under pressure, break after interrogation)
- (Argentina,intransitive,slang) to vomit after drinking too much alcohol
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