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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ēmungere (“to wipe or blow the nose”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /emunˈxeɾ/
- Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: e‧mun‧ger
Verb
emunger (first-person singular present emunjo, first-person singular preterite emungí, past participle emungido)
- (intransitive, reflexive) to blow one's nose
- Synonym: sonar la nariz
- (intransitive, reflexive) to wipe one's nose
- Synonym: limpiar la nariz
- (transitive, by extension, of nasal mucus) to treat with a softening agent, such as a saline nasal spray (see emungente)
- (transitive, by extension, of a rhinolithic nidus) to treat with a softening agent (see emungente)
- (intransitive) to have rhinorrhoea, a runny nose
- (intransitive) to drip or flow from the nose
Conjugation
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.