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deixa
Meaning
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- cue (action or event that is a signal to do something)
- floodplain (plain surrounding a river that experiences periodical flooding)
Hyphenated as
dei‧xa
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈde(j).ʃɐ/
Etymology
Deverbal from deixar (“to leave; to allow”).
deixar
- to leave; to exit (to go out of or away from a place)
- to leave (to refrain from taking)
- to leave (to cause to exist after its occurrence)
- to leave (to cause to be in a state)
- to leave (to end one’s connection, affiliation or relationship with)
- to quit (to stop doing something habitually)
- not to (do something); to refrain from
- to let; to allow to (to give permission to)
- to let; to allow to (to give possibility to)
- to postpone; to put off (to reschedule or avoid doing something until a later time)
- to leave; to bequeath (to give something to someone after dying or leaving)
- to leave off; to omit (to not include)
- to leave alone (to not bother)
- to make someone feel a certain way
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