amamantar

v.

1 to suckle (animal).

2 to breast-feed, to suckle, to nurse, to wet-nurse.

La nana crió al chico The nanny nursed the boy.

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amamantar

► verbo transitivo

1 to breast-feed, suckle

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verb

to suckle, nurse

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VT

1) (=dar el pecho a) to suckle, nurse

2) Caribe (=mimar) to spoil

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1.

verbo transitivo to breastfeed

2.

amamantar vi to breastfeed

madres que amamantan — nursing mothers

la cerda está amamantando — the sow is suckling her young

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= breast-feed [breastfeed], nurse.

Ex. Traditionally, Malaysian women breast-feed their infants for an extended period of time; only elite Chinese women resort to a wet-nurse.

Ex. The author also evokes the story of the wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus in order to suggest the barbarity of Renaissance Rome.

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1.

verbo transitivo to breastfeed

2.

amamantar vi to breastfeed

madres que amamantan — nursing mothers

la cerda está amamantando — the sow is suckling her young

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= breast-feed [breastfeed], nurse.

Ex: Traditionally, Malaysian women breast-feed their infants for an extended period of time; only elite Chinese women resort to a wet-nurse.

Ex: The author also evokes the story of the wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus in order to suggest the barbarity of Renaissance Rome.

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amamantar [A1 ]

vt

«mujer» to breastfeed, suckle; «animal» to suckle

amamantó a sus cuatro hijos she breastfed her four children

una mujer amamantando a su niño a woman suckling o nursing o breastfeeding her child

■ amamantar

vi

«mujer» to breastfeed

madres que amamantan mothers who are breastfeeding, nursing mothers

la cerda está amamantando the sow is suckling her young

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amamantar (conjugate amamantar) verbo transitivo/intransitivo [mujer] to breastfeed;
[animal] to suckle
amamantar verbo transitivo to breast-feed
Zool to suckle
'amamantar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
criar
English:
breast-feed
- nurse
- suckle

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amamantar vt

1. [animal] to suckle

2. [bebé] to breastfeed

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amamantar

v/t bebé breastfeed; cría feed

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amamantar v

: to breast-feed, to nurse, to suckle