deshacer
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Early Medieval Latin disfacere. Synchronically des- + hacer.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /desaˈθeɾ/ [d̪e.saˈθeɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /desaˈseɾ/ [d̪e.saˈseɾ]
- Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: des‧ha‧cer
Verb
[edit]deshacer (first-person singular present deshago, first-person singular preterite deshice, past participle deshecho)
- (transitive) to undo, to unmake
- Antonym: hacer
- (transitive) to unpack
- Synonym: desempacar
- (transitive) to break, to break up (e.g. a treaty, a business, a band, a united effort)
- (transitive) to take back (something done or said)
- Synonym: retirar
- (transitive) to reverse (a spell or curse)
- (reflexive) to come undone, to unravel
- (reflexive) to get rid of, to ditch, to dispose of, to dump (deshacerse de alguien o algo)
- (reflexive) to melt (deshacerse el hielo)
- Synonyms: derretir, descongelar
- (reflexive) to weed out (unwanted people)
- (reflexive, followed by "en") to feel/show a lot of (emotion)
- deshacerse en elogios
- to praise from the rooftops
- deshacerse en excusas
- to make plenty of excuses
- deshacerse en insultos
- to completely slag off
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of deshacer (irregular) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of deshacer (irregular)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading
[edit]- “deshacer”, 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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