desbancar
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]desbancar (first-person singular present desbanco, first-person singular preterite desbanqué, past participle desbancado)
- (transitive) to unseat, oust
- 2020 November 11, Rocío Montes, “Richard Nixon: “Si hay una forma de desbancar a Allende, mejor hazlo””, in EL PAÍS[1], retrieved 2020-11-11:
- “Si hay una forma de desbancar a Allende, mejor hazlo”, indicó Nixon en el encuentro, según el manuscrito de Helms, que forma parte de los documentos desclasificados por Estados Unidos y publicados ahora por primera vez.
- "If there is any way to unseat Allende, better do it", said Nixon at the meeting, according to Helms' manuscript, which was among the documents declassified by the United States and published for the first time.
- (transitive) to surpass, overtake
- 1906, Benito Pérez Galdós, Prim:
- Era la gran logia de la inteligencia que había venido a desbancar las antiguas, ya desacreditadas, como generadoras de la acción iracunda
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to go bust
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of desbancar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of desbancar (c-qu alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “desbancar”, 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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