desatar
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Portuguese
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Verb
[edit]desatar (first-person singular present desato, first-person singular preterite desatei, past participle desatado)
- to untie
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of desatar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]desatar (first-person singular present desato, first-person singular preterite desaté, past participle desatado)
- (transitive, reflexive) to untie, undo, unfasten, unleash
- (transitive) to provoke, set off, trigger (especially suddenly)
- 2018 September 25, Pablo León, “¿Para quién es ‘cool’ Lavapiés?”, in El País[1]:
- Gran parte de los manteros de la ciudad viven allí por lo que la muerte de Mame Mbaye, de 35 años, desató una oleada de protestas –se prendió fuego a contenedores y vehículos- y un gran despliegue policial para apaciguar el barrio.
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Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of desatar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of desatar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “desatar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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