ahorcar
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From horca (“gallows”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ahorcar (first-person singular present ahorco, first-person singular preterite ahorqué, past participle ahorcado)
- (transitive) to lynch, to hang
- Synonym: linchar
- (transitive, Latin America) to strangle
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of ahorcar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of ahorcar (c-qu alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ahorcar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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