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Etymology
From des- + ballesta + -ar.
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Verb
desballestar (first-person singular present desballesto, first-person singular preterite desballestí, past participle desballestat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
- (transitive) to take apart, dismantle
- Synonyms: desmuntar, desfer
2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 2, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:Les van desballestar allà mateix. A l'interior d'una barra de ferro de la meva bicicleta van trobar-hi la carta.- They took them apart right there. Inside an iron bar of my bicycle they found the letter.
- (transitive) to salvage, to cannibalise (remove parts from a defective machine to use elsewhere)
- (transitive) to put out of order, to wreck
- Synonyms: desajustar, desgavellar
- (reflexive) to break down, (of a person) to have a breakdown
Sembla que alguna cosa s'ha desballestat a la moto, ja que la bateria és nova.- It seems like something has broken down in the motorcycle since the battery is new.
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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /desbaʝesˈtaɾ/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /desbaʎesˈtaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /desbaʃesˈtaɾ/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /desbaʒesˈtaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: des‧ba‧lles‧tar
Verb
desballestar (first-person singular present desballesto, first-person singular preterite desballesté, past participle desballestado)
- to unsettle
2015 November 6, “Entrevista”, in El País:Recuerda, además, Zanón que vivía con sus padres y los cuatro abuelos: "Siempre había alguien en casa, era una estructura familiar que nos protegía y que ahora no existe: hoy los tienes en la residencia y para pagarlo has de trabajar 24 horas… Es absurdo: hay que romper con eso, se desballestan muchas cosas ¿Un discurso conservador?- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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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