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Spanish
Etymology
From chapuz, chapuza + -ear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /t͡ʃapuθeˈaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /t͡ʃapuseˈaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: cha‧pu‧ce‧ar
Verb
chapucear (first-person singular present chapuceo, first-person singular preterite chapuceé, past participle chapuceado)
- (colloquial, transitive) to botch; mess up
Conjugation
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
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