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quebequés
adjective
Quebecois
quebequés
noun, masculine
Quebecois
quebrachal
noun, masculine
a forest or plantation of quebracho trees
quebracho
noun, masculine
quebracho (tree of South America)
quebracho blanco
noun, masculine
white quebracho (Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco)
quebrada
noun, feminine
gorge, ravine
quebradero de cabeza
noun, masculine
headache, worry
quebradita
noun, feminine
quebradita, a Mexican dance
quebradizo
adjective
brittle, crumbly, friable, fragile, delicate; crisp (e.g. air, food)
quebrado
adjective
bankrupt; broke; broken; uneven; coarse; rough; capable of both attack and defense; spirited; skilled at dodging (cf. quiebro, quebradillo)
quebrado
noun, masculine
número quebrado: fraction; verso quebrado: a line of poetry shorter than the surrounding or natural meter of the poem (cf. hemistich); hernia
quebrado de compás
noun, masculine
time signature
quebrador
noun, masculine
breaker
quebradura
noun, feminine
breakage, break, crack; ravine; hernia
quebrantación
noun, feminine
breaking, breach.
quebrantado
adjective
broken, shattered (often figuratively); downbeat; broken-hearted
quebrantador
adjective
breaking, destructive
quebrantador
noun, masculine
breaker
quebrantaherraduras
noun, masculine
many-flowered horseshoe vetch (Hippocrepis multisiliquosa)
quebrantahuesos
noun, masculine
the bearded vulture or lammergeier
quebrantamiento
noun, masculine
brokenness, weakening; breaking, violation (e.g. of law or rules, of a covenant or pact); breach, breaching (i.e. failure to perform some obligation); breakdown, disruption (of established social order); destruction
to break (physically); to break (e.g. someone's spirit, one's faith or trust, one's power); to break, to breach (e.g. peace, the rules, a policy, a principle); to break down, to be broken (typically used figuratively)
quebranto
noun, masculine
a break; a loss; an affliction or grief
to break, to snap, to shatter (to smash or rupture); to break (often in legal contexts), violate a law; to bend, flex or twist; to fail; to go broke; to become bankrupt; to go out of business; to crash, to go bust, to go under (used in political, economic and business/financial/investment contexts); to break up
to butt in
queche
noun, masculine
ketch
quechemarín
noun, masculine
gaff cutter
quechua
adjective
Quechuan
quechua
noun, masculine/feminine
Quechua (member of one of several South American ethnic groups)
quechua
noun, masculine
Quechua (language)
quechuahablante
noun, masculine/feminine
Quechua speaker
quechuañol
noun, masculine
a language blend of Quechua and Spanish
quechuismo
noun, masculine
a Spanish word of Quechua origin; Quechua-ness
queco
noun, masculine
a mess
queda
noun, feminine
curfew
quedada
noun, feminine
meeting
quietly
quedar
verb
to be (as a result of something), to end up; to be situated; to be located (used with only static objects, such as buildings); to be left; to remain; to fit, to suit; to look good (clothes); to turn out, e.g. well or poorly
to be quits; to be satisfied with the fulfillment of the responsibilities, obligations or promises agreed with other people; to have no debts, responsibilities, obligations or promises left to fulfill.
to make a show of oneself
to be put on hold; to not be fulfilled
to die on the battlefield
to be ridiculized; to be lampooned
to come to nothing
to give a negative impression; to not be liked
synonym of quedarse para vestir santos
to have plenty of life left in (one)
one's days are numbered, to be on borrowed time
to not quite make it; fall at the last hurdle
to understand; to know the score
to oversleep (to sleep for longer than intended; fail to wake on time); to fall asleep, to doze off, to drop off, to nod off, to conk out (to pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep)
to drop dead
to go out like a light
to remain on the shelf (of a woman, remain unmarried)
to act as if nothing has happened
to act as if nothing has happened
obsolete spelling of quedase
quedito
adverb
very quietly
quedo
adjective
quiet, still
quedo
adverb
quietly