quebrantar

v.

1 to break (incumplir) (promesa, ley).

El dolor quebrantó a Lisa The pain broke Lisa.

2 to crack.

3 to weaken.

4 to infringe, to violate, to transgress.

El ladrón quebrantó la ley The thief infringed the law.

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quebrantar

► verbo transitivo

1 (cascar) to crack

2 (romper) to break, shatter; (machacar) to grind

3 (debilitar) to weaken

4 figurado (salud, posición, fortuna) to undermine, shatter

5 figurado (incumplir) to break, violate

■ es la primera vez que quebranta la ley it's the first time he has broken the law

6 figurado (suavizar) to take the edge off, temper; (ablandar) to soften

■ el sol ha quebrantado el frío the sun has taken the edge off the cold

■ quebrantó su furor con una sonrisa he tempered his anger with a smile

7 figurado (causar lástima) to wound, shatter

■ aquello me quebrantó el corazón that broke my heart

► verbo pronominal quebrantarse

1 (cascarse) to crack

2 (romperse) to break

3 (la salud) to be shattered

■ se quebrantó con tantos esfuerzos he felt shattered after such hard work

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verb

to break

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1. VT

1) (=romper) [gen] to break; [haciendo grietas] to crack; [haciendo añicos] to shatter

2) (=debilitar) [+ resistencia] to weaken, break; [+ salud, posición] to destroy, undermine; [+ persona] to break; [+ cimientos, furia, moral] to weaken

3) (=abrir) [+ cerradura] to force; [+ caja fuerte, sello] to break open; [+ cárcel] to break out of; [+ recinto sagrado] to break into, violate; [+ terreno vedado] to trespass on

4) [+ ley, promesa] to break

5) [+ color] to tone down

6) LAm [+ caballo] to break in

2.

See:

quebrantarse

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verbo transitivo (liter) <salud> to break (liter); <paz/armonía> (frml) to disturb; <ley/promesa> (frml) to break

quebrantarle la moral a alguien — to break somebody's spirit

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= be in violation of, infringe (on/upon), go back on, transgress.

Ex. A 'self-help' approach, whereby libraries cooperate to boycott periodical publishers who are considered to be culpable, may also be in violation of antitrust legislation.

Ex. The Act undoubtedly has the potential to infringe gravely upon the civil liberties of UK citizens.

Ex. The Commission has downgraded university librarians in terms of both pay and academic status, thus going back on a right granted as early as 1960.

Ex. But it is Islam's strict code of sexual modesty that Islamists most often transgress.

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* quebrantar el espíritu de Alguien = break + Posesivo + spirit.

* quebrantar la ley = break + the law.

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verbo transitivo (liter) <salud> to break (liter); <paz/armonía> (frml) to disturb; <ley/promesa> (frml) to break

quebrantarle la moral a alguien — to break somebody's spirit

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= be in violation of, infringe (on/upon), go back on, transgress.

Ex: A 'self-help' approach, whereby libraries cooperate to boycott periodical publishers who are considered to be culpable, may also be in violation of antitrust legislation.

Ex: The Act undoubtedly has the potential to infringe gravely upon the civil liberties of UK citizens.

Ex: The Commission has downgraded university librarians in terms of both pay and academic status, thus going back on a right granted as early as 1960.

Ex: But it is Islam's strict code of sexual modesty that Islamists most often transgress.

* quebrantar el espíritu de Alguien = break + Posesivo + spirit.

* quebrantar la ley = break + the law.

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quebrantar [A1 ]

vt

A (liter) (dañar) ‹salud› to ruin, break (liter)

los constantes bombardeos quebrantaron la moral de los habitantes the constant bombing broke the spirit of the population

no quisiera que esta armonía se viera quebrantada I wouldn't like this harmony to be destroyed

los aullidos quebrantaron la paz de la noche the howls shattered the peace of the night

B (liter); ‹ley/promesa› to break

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quebrantar verbo transitivo
1 to break: la pobre dieta y el frío quebrantaron su salud, her health deteriorated because of a poor diet and the cold
2 Jur to violate, infringe
'quebrantar' also found in these entries:
English:
break
- provoke
- violate

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quebrantar

♦ vt

1. [promesa, ley] to break;

[obligación] to fail in

2. [rocas] to crack

3. [moral, resistencia] [romper] to break;

[debilitar] to weaken

♦ See also the pronominal verb quebrantarse

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quebrantar

v/t ley, contrato break; fig

break, undermine

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quebrantar vt

1) : to break, to split, to crack

2) : to weaken

3) : to violate (a law or contract)

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quebrantar vb

1. (ley, promesa) to break [pt. broke; pp. broken]

2. (salud) to weaken