enceguecer
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From en- + ciego (“blind”) + -ecer.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /enθeɡeˈθeɾ/ [ẽn̟.θe.ɣ̞eˈθeɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /enseɡeˈseɾ/ [ẽn.se.ɣ̞eˈseɾ]
- Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: en‧ce‧gue‧cer
Verb
[edit]enceguecer (first-person singular present enceguezco, first-person singular preterite enceguecí, past participle enceguecido)
- (Latin America) to blind
- Synonym: cegar
- 2015 December, “Una monumental e histórica ceguera”, in El Nacional[1]:
- Y parece haberse empeñado en enceguecer al poco agraciado y no particularmente talentoso líder que salió de la nada.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of enceguecer (c-zc alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading
[edit]- “enceguecer”, 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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