empalagar

v.

to cloy, to weary, to surfeit, to pall.

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empalagar

Conjugation model [LLEGAR], like {{link=llegar}}llegar

► verbo intransitivo

1 (dulces) to be too sweet, be sickly

2 figurado to be cloying, pall

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1. VT

1) [comida] to be too sweet for

2)

su conversación me empalaga — I find his conversation too sickly-sweet

2.

VI [chocolate, tarta] to be too sweet

3.

See:

empalagarse

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1.

verbo transitivo

los bombones me empalagan — chocolates are too sweet o sickly for my taste

tantas atenciones me empalagan — I find so much kindness cloying

2.

empalagar vi estilo/obra to be cloying; licor/dulce to be too sweet o sickly

su sentimentalismo empalaga — its sentimentality palls o is rather cloying

3.

empalagarse v pron persona

me empalagué con tanto dulce — I ate so many sweet things, I couldn't face any more

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1.

verbo transitivo

los bombones me empalagan — chocolates are too sweet o sickly for my taste

tantas atenciones me empalagan — I find so much kindness cloying

2.

empalagar vi estilo/obra to be cloying; licor/dulce to be too sweet o sickly

su sentimentalismo empalaga — its sentimentality palls o is rather cloying

3.

empalagarse v pron persona

me empalagué con tanto dulce — I ate so many sweet things, I couldn't face any more

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empalagar [A3 ]

vt

tantas atenciones me empalagan I find so much kindness cloying

esa mujer me empalaga I find that woman cloying o too sickly sweet

esos bombones me empalagan those chocolates are too sweet o sickly for me

■ empalagar

vi

«estilo/obra» to be cloying; «licor/dulce» to be too sweet o sickly

una pulcritud en el vestir que empalaga a fastidiousness about the way he dresses which becomes rather sickening

su exceso de romanticismo empalaga its excessive sentimentality palls o is rather cloying

■ empalagarse

v pron

«persona»: se ha empalagado con los mazapanes he has stuffed himself full of marzipan (colloq)

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empalagar (conjugate empalagar) verbo transitivo:

◊ los bombones me empalagan chocolates are too sweet o sickly for my taste

verbo intransitivo [licor/dulce] to be too sweet o sickly;

[estilo/sentimentalismo] to be cloying
empalagar verbo transitivo & verbo intransitivo
1 (ser demasiado dulce) to be too rich o sweet: esa mermelada me empalaga, that jam is too sweet for my taste
2 (aburrir, disgustar) to bore: me empalagan las películas de Disney, I find Disney films rather cloying

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empalagar

♦ vt

1. [sujeto: pastel, dulce, licor]

los bombones me empalagan I find chocolates sickly;

este vino me empalaga this wine is far too sweet for me

2. [sujeto: persona] to weary, to tire;

me empalaga con tanta cortesía I find his excessive politeness rather cloying

♦ vi

1. [pastel, dulces, licor] to be sickly sweet

2. [persona, estilo, actitud] to be rather cloying

♦ See also the pronominal verb empalagarse

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empalagar

v/t

:

el chocolate me empalaga I find chocolate too cloying o sickly sweet;

me empalaga fig I find it too much

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empalagar {52} vt

1) : to cloy, to surfeit

2) fastidiar: to annoy, to bother