arrostrar

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Spanish

Etymology

From a- +‎ rostro +‎ -ar.

Verb

arrostrar (first-person singular present arrostro, first-person singular preterite arrostré, past participle arrostrado)

  1. (transitive) to face, to face up to (to confront a condition or situation)
    • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 179:
      El que pretende ver la flor de la higuera en la noche de San Juan, debe prepararse para ver primero al demonio con todos sus súbditos. Si tiene coraje para arrostrar este prueba y sale airoso de ella, su fortuna está asegurada.
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    • 2015 October 4, “¿3.000 días en el banquillo por los ERE?”, in El País:
      El también letrado Alfonso Martínez del Hoyo, matiza sobre la conexidad de los delitos: “Doscientos juicios a los que, en algún caso, puede que deba someterse alguna persona, para –inhumana, monstruosamente- arrostrar acusaciones por hechos que, sin embargo, vienen relacionados”.
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