foguear

v.

1 to habituate persons or horses to the discharge of fire-arms.

2 to cleanse fire-arms with a charge of gunpowder.

3 to have one's baptism of fire.

4 to inure, to temper.

El clima fogueó los materiales The climate inured the materials.

5 to accustom, to habituate.

Las prácticas foguearon a Tito Practice accustomed Tito.

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foguear

► verbo transitivo

1 MILITAR to accustom to gunfire

2 figurado to harden

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LAm

1.

VT to fire on

2.

See:

foguearse

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= toughen.

Ex. It contains a bevy of fearsomely feisty female archetypes removed from domestic obligations and toughened in the brutal setting of prison life.

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* foguearse = gain + experience.

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= toughen.

Ex: It contains a bevy of fearsomely feisty female archetypes removed from domestic obligations and toughened in the brutal setting of prison life.

* foguearse = gain + experience.

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foguear

♦ vt

1. [arma, escopeta] to scale

2. [soldado, caballo] to accustom to gunfire

3. [dar experiencia]

foguear a alguien en algo to give sb experience of sth

♦ See also the pronominal verb foguearse

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foguear

v/t MIL, fig

give a baptism of fire

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foguear vt

: to inure, to accustom