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Spanish
Etymology
From pereza + -ear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /peɾeθeˈaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /peɾeseˈaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: pe‧re‧ce‧ar
Verb
perecear (first-person singular present pereceo, first-person singular preterite pereceé, past participle pereceado)
- (colloquial) to postpone, waste time, retard or defer something due to one's laziness, negligence, or sloth
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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