dejar

Spanish

verb
Definitions
  • (transitive) to leave to place
  • (transitive) to leave, to keep to allow to continue
  • (transitive) to leave to cause, result in
  • (transitive) to let, allow
  • (transitive) to let go, put down to release from one's grasp
  • (transitive) to drop off
  • (transitive) to leave, to abandon, to dump
  • (transitive) to give up, to lay off, to kick colloquial
  • (transitive) to set, to put, to make in certain phrases
  • (Spain) to cut out stop
  • (intransitive) to leave off
  • to cease, stop (doing something)
  • to be left, to be left to
  • (reflexive) to let oneself, to let oneself go cease to care about one's appearance

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish dexar, lexar inherited from Latin laxāre.

Origin

Latin

laxāre

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