desasnar
Spanish
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editdesasnar (first-person singular present desasno, first-person singular preterite desasné, past participle desasnado)
- (colloquial) to civilize
- 1903, Godofredo Daireaux, “El maestro de escuela”, in Tipos y paisajes criollos - Serie IV:
- Y don Anselmo empezó, sin ganas, a desasnar a los tres hijos de don Tomás, paisanitos de fecunda e ingeniosa travesura, y a tratar de hacerles comprender, a razón de tres horas por día y de veinte pesos al mes, y la tumba, las complicadas reglas de la aritmética y las arduas bellezas de la cartilla primera.
- And Don Anselmo began, reluctantly, to civilize the three children of Don Tomás, little countrymen of fertile and ingenious mischief, and to try to make them understand, at a rate of three hours a day and twenty pesos a month, and the grave, the complicated rules of arithmetic and the arduous beauties of the primer.
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edit- “desasnar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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