quebrar

Spanish

verb
Definitions
  • (transitive) to break, to snap, to shatter i.e. to smash or rupture
  • (transitive) to break often in legal contexts
  • (transitive) to bend, flex or twist
  • (intransitive) to fail; to go broke; to become bankrupt; to go out of business; to crash, to go bust, to go under used in political, economic and business/financial/investment contexts
  • (intransitive) to break up
  • (intransitive) to kill
  • (reflexive) to crack, to break, to shatter putting the onus on the thing cracking itself, absolving any sentient subject of responsibility
  • (reflexive) to crack, to break e.g. crack under pressure, break after interrogation

Etymology

Inherited from Latin crepāre (creak, crack) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂-.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ḱorh₂-

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