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Spanish
Etymology
From descontrol. Cognate with English decontrol.
Verb
descontrolar (first-person singular present descontrolo, first-person singular preterite descontrolé, past participle descontrolado)
- (transitive) to lose control
- (reflexive) to lose self-control, to lack control
- (reflexive) to spin out of control, to come apart at the seams
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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