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Meaning of esventrar | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2
[əz.bənˈtɾa]

Definitions

  1. to disembowel, to eviscerate, to gut
    Balearic, Central, Valencia, transitive
  2. to break open
    Balearic, Central, Valencia, transitive

Examples

“Acabava d'esventrar un ànec i vaig recuperar, entre les vísceres, la Marianne que li havia lliurat abans d'incorporar-se a la guerrilla. Ben segur que l'estrenyia amb el puny clos quan li dispararen, i va rodolar enmig de l'herba en obrir-se la mà morta.”

I just eviscerated a duck and recovered, among the guts, the Marianne medallion which they'd delivered to him before incorporating him into the guerrilla unit. For sure he squeezed it with his closed fist when they shot him, and it rolled into the middle of the grass with the opening of his dead hand.

“I les granades de morter esventraven les tombes i l'espectacle no podia ser més repugnant.”

And the mortar grenades broke open the graves and the spectacle could not have been more repugnant.

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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