Spanish word
apagar
/apaˈɡaɾ/
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- Part of speech
- verb
- Level
- B1
- Frequency
- No. 1,724 in the course corpus
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- to switch off
- to extinguish (a flame, fire), to dousetransitive
- to satisfyobsolete, transitive
- quench, slake (thirst, etc.)transitive
- to shut off, to turn off, to switch off, to shut down, to power offtransitive
- to put out, to stub out (e.g., cigarette)transitive
- to blow out (e.g., a candle), to snuff or snuff out (e.g., a torch)transitive
- to fade; to wanereflexive
- to go out, be extinguishedreflexive
- blow out(extinguish)
- deaden(To render less lively)
- douse(put out; extinguish)
- extinguish(to stop (fire, etc.) from burning; to stop (light, etc.) from shining — see also put out, quench)
- quench(to extinguish or put out)
- shut down(to turn off or stop)
- slake(to cool with water)
- smother(to extinguish or deaden)
- snuff(extinguish candle or oil-lamp)
- snuff out(to extinguish)
Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)