Spanish word
encender
/enθenˈdeɾ//ensenˈdeɾ/
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- Part of speech
- verb
- Level
- A2
- Frequency
- No. 1,703 in the course corpus
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- to turn on
- to light, ignite
- to turn on, switch on, power up
- to burn, have a burning sensationreflexive
- fire up(Of an engine: to start)
- ignite(to trigger)
- kindle(to start (a fire))
- light(to start (a fire))
- pique(to wound the pride of (someone))
- set on fire(cause to begin to burn)
- start up(to begin to operate)
- turn on((transitive) to activate an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.)
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