encumbrar
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[edit]encumbrar (first-person singular present encumbro, first-person singular preterite encumbré, past participle encumbrado)
- (transitive) to climb; to scale (a peak)
- encumbrar el pico ― to scale the peak
- 1900, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, El Zarco, chapter 9:
- Y se alejó al trote para encumbrar la montaña.
- And he trotted off to scale the mountain
- (transitive) to extol
- 1583, Fray Luis de León, La perfecta casada:
- Y dice Salomón que los hijos de la perfecta casada, loándola, la encumbran sobre todas, y dice que de las buenas ella es la más buena […]
- Salomon says the sons of the perfect married woman praise her, they extol her above all others, and he says that they are the nicest of the nice.
- 1986, Enriqueta L. Rodríguez, Santiago Ramón y Cajal: el hombre, el sabio y el pensador:
- Y fueron esos sabios aristócratas eminentes, de Centroeuropa, quienes le patrocinaron y le encumbraron a los más altos galardones científicos y condecoraciones mundiales.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2015 September 25, “The Waterboys se trasladan a una idealizada América”, in El País[1]:
- Se apartaban así de la solemnidad común a las producciones de la época, ampulosidad que tres años antes les había encumbrado con This Is the Sea, cuya canción The Whole of the Moon es habitual en las selecciones de éxitos de los ochenta.
- Thus, they stay clear of the solemnity typical of productions of the time, a pomposity that three years beforehand had extolled them with This Is the Sea, an album including The Whole of the Moon, commonplace on 80s playlists.
- 2021, Javier Bustos Díaz, Historia económica:
- consiguen hacerse un hueco dentro del mercado global encumbrando a Alemania como la primera potencia europea en términos de industrialización.
- they manager to make a niche in the global market by hailing Germany as Europe's top power in terms of industrialization.
- (reflexive) to pile up; to build up
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of encumbrar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “encumbrar”, 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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