Meaning of espelir | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to shake off, to expel
   transitive
2. to winnow; to select or separate straw and grass, etc.
   transitive
3. to fluff (flax, wool, etc.)
   transitive
4. to fluff, to puff up (of dough)
   intransitive
5. to wake up
   pronominal
6. to wake up; to wise up
   figuratively, pronominal

Equivalents

Examples

“No muíño de Pinchapava nunha fiada de inverno estando mozas e mozos xa cansados de bureo, para espelirse do sono todos eles propuxeron de poñerse a contar contos”

In Pinchapava's mill, during a winter evening, being the girls and boys tired of merrymaking, for waking up of their sleep, they proposed to tell tales

“¿Vosté sabe cómo agora se espilen polos liceos as mozas, que asta recursos botan e ganan os preitos?”

Do you know how now the young ladies wise up around the lyceums? they even present appeals and win lawsuits!

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