esporuguir
Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
esporuguir (first-person singular present esporugueixo, first-person singular preterite esporuguí, past participle esporuguit)
- (transitive) to frighten
- 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 14, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
- Amb una violència forassenyada va amenaçar amb un pal el triangle, que va fugir esporuguit, i es va endur l'Aneris al far.
- With mad violence, he threatened the triangle with a stick, making him flee in fear, and he took Aneris to the lighthouse.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to take fright
- La majoria de les persones s'esporugueixen i corren.
- The majority of people take fright and run.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- esporuguiment
Further reading
- “esporuguir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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