Spanish word
parar
/paˈɾaɾ/
Not taught in the course yet
- Part of speech
- verb
Meanings
- to stop, haltintransitive, transitive
- to stand upCaribbean, Central-America, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Rioplatense, Venezuela, intransitive
- to put something in a vertical positionCaribbean, Chile, Colombia, Costa-Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Rioplatense, Venezuela, transitive
- to put someone in a vertical positionBolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa-Rica, Cuba, Dominican-Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Rioplatense, Venezuela, transitive
- to get up (from bed)Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican-Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, reflexive
- to become erect (in the sense of upright)reflexive
- (of one's penis) to become erectCaribbean, Central-America, Mexico, South-America, reflexive, vulgar
- see pararlasChile
- to tend to do or to be (followed by a gerund)Peru, colloquial
- be(auxiliary, dialectal: used to mark habitual aspect)
- call off(to cancel)
- cease(intransitive)
- halt(to stop either temporarily or permanently)
- knock it off(to stop doing something)
- parry(avoid, deflect, or ward off)
- pause(to interrupt something)
- pull over(cause someone/something to pull over)
- save(to sports: to catch or deflect a shot at goal)
- stall(to cause to come to a standstill)
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