soliviantar

Spanish

Etymology

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Verb

soliviantar (first-person singular present solivianto, first-person singular preterite solivianté, past participle soliviantado)

  1. to rouse, stir up, incite
  2. to change (someone's) emotional state (in various different ways)
    1. to annoy; to irritate
    2. to excite
      • 1876, Juan Valera, El comendador Mendoza:
        -Quiero decir que es V. bueno, porque no es como otros caballeros, que por más que estén ya con un pie en el sepulcro, de lo que dista V. mucho, a Dios gracias, andan siempre galanteando y soliviantando a las hijas de los artesanos y jornaleros.
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    3. to give false hope to
    4. to worry

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