echar

Spanish

verb
Definitions
  • (transitive) to throw, toss, cast, jettison to release an object from one's grasp so that it moves through the air
  • (transitive) to pour to cause to flow in a stream from a container
  • (transitive) to put in, add
  • (transitive) to let out
  • (transitive) to dump
  • (transitive) to emit, give off, send out
  • (transitive) to kick out, expel, throw out, to send packing to forcibly remove
  • (transitive) to expel to remove from membership
  • (transitive) to fire, dismiss to terminate employment
  • (transitive) to play to participate in a sport
  • (transitive) to sprout to cause to grow from a seed
  • (transitive) to take, have (a look at)
  • (transitive) to mail, post to send through the mail/post
  • (transitive) to give, bestow (a blessing); to put (a curse) on
  • (transitive) to turn (a key); to slide (a bolt)
  • (intransitive) to start off, begin
  • (reflexive) to throw oneself
  • (reflexive) to lie down to assume a reclining position
  • (reflexive) to put on
  • (reflexive) to begin

Etymology

Inherited from Latin *iectāre, *iectō, iactāre.

Origin

Latin

iactāre

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