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empedernido: hardened, inveterate; hopeless; confirmed
empedernir: to harden
empedocleano: Empedoclean
empedocleano: Empedoclean
empedrado: cobblestone pavement
empedrar: to pave; to strew, scatter
empeine: instep; upper (of footwear)
empeine: dermatophytosis, ringworm
empelar: to sprout hair; to have similar colour fur (said of horses)
empellar: to shove; to push
empeller: to push
empellicar: to skin, to line something with skin
empellón: push, shove, jostle
empeloto: butt-naked; starkers
empenachar: to decorate with plumes
empenaje: empennage
empenta: shove; push
empeoramiento: worsening
empeorar: to worsen, to make worse, to exacerbate; to get worse, to deteriorate
empequeñecer: to reduce, shrink
empequeñecimiento: shrinking
emperador: emperor; swordfish
emperadora: the wife of an emperor; female equivalent of emperador: empress
emperchar: to hang on a perch; to dress up (to put on special or fancy clothes)
empercudido: stained
emperejilar: to doll up, to sex up, to glam up
emperifollar: to doll up, sex up, glam up
empernado: bolted; bolt-on
empero: however, nevertheless
emperra: only used in se emperra, third-person singular present indicative of emperrarse
emperrad: only used in os ... emperrad, syntactic variant of emperraos, second-person plural imperative of emperrarse
emperrando: only used in se ... emperrando, syntactic variant of emperrándose, gerund of emperrarse
emperrar: make angry, infuriate; get angry; to be obstinate (stuck on an idea or undertaking)
emperre: only used in me emperre, first-person singular present subjunctive of emperrarse
emperremos: only used in nos emperremos, first-person plural present subjunctive of emperrarse
emperren: only used in se emperren, third-person plural present subjunctive of emperrarse
emperrá: only used in te ... emperrá, syntactic variant of emperrate, second-person singular voseo imperative of emperrarse
empersonar: to register someone into a census
empestar: synonym of apestar
empezar: to start, begin, to get started; to start; to start, to begin; to lead, to open; to be started
empezar de cero: to start from scratch, to start over, to start fresh
empezar la casa por el tejado: to put the cart before the horse
empeñado: determined, hell-bent, dead set, set
empeñamiento: pawning
empeñar: to pawn, to hock (sell something to a pawn shop); to involve; to pledge; to strive, make an effort, insist
empeñero: pawnbroker
empeño: effort, endeavor; insistence; commitment; obligation; persistence
empeñosamente: desperately
empeñoso: diligent, industrious, persevering
empichar: to pave with asphalt
empiece: start
empiema: empyema
empiezo: start
empillar: to pile, stack, heap
empiltra: only used in se empiltra, third-person singular present indicative of empiltrarse
empiltrando: only used in se ... empiltrando, syntactic variant of empiltrándose, gerund of empiltrarse
empiltrar: only used in se ... empiltrar, syntactic variant of empiltrarse
empiltrarse: to hit the sack
empiltre: only used in me empiltre, first-person singular present subjunctive of empiltrarse
empiltremos: only used in nos empiltremos, first-person plural present subjunctive of empiltrarse