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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈpɾjeto/
- Rhymes: -eto
- Syllabification: a‧prie‧to
Etymology 1
Deverbal from apretar.
Noun
aprieto m (plural aprietos)
- predicament, bind, spot, jam, pickle, fix
- Synonym: apretura
1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:¡Oh! señores, si yo tuviera la elocuencia y la erudición de mi ilustre amigo el gran católico D. Juan de Lantigua, os diría a qué extremos llegan la impiedad y la osadía de los revolucionarios, y el aprieto en que quieren poner a los hombres religiosos y píos; si yo tuviera, repito...- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Etymology 2
Verb
aprieto
- first-person singular present indicative of apretar
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