estallar
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From metathesis of older *astellar, from astilla (“splinter”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]estallar (first-person singular present estallo, first-person singular preterite estallé, past participle estallado)
- (intransitive) to explode, to blow up, to burst
- Synonym: reventar
- estallar en llamas ― to burst into flames
- estallar en carcajadas ― to burst into laughter
- 1983, “Vamos a la playa”, performed by Righeira:
- Vamos a la playa, la bomba estalló / Las radiaciónes tuestan y matizan de azul
- Let's go to the beach, the bomb exploded / The radiation tans and tints everything with blue
- (intransitive) to crack (a whip)
- (intransitive, figurative) to break out, erupt (said of a revolution, a war, a fire, etc.)
- 2021 December 7, Silvia Ayuso, “La violencia en el primer mitin del ultra Éric Zemmour enturbia la campaña electoral francesa”, in El País[1]:
- No había acabado Éric Zemmour de arremeter contra los inmigrantes, el islam y hasta la prensa en su primer mitin de campaña, el domingo, cuando la violencia estalló entre las últimas filas de la gigantesca sala del parque de exposiciones de Villepinte, […]
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- (intransitive) to break loose
- (intransitive) to blow up, to blow one's top, to explode
- (transitive) to pop (e.g., a bubble, a balloon, a button, a question)
- (transitive) to blow up, to set off, to make explode (hacer + estallar)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of estallar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of estallar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “estallar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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