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Tag: levantar

Definitions tagged levantar in the street dictionary.

Arrimar

A common way to describe pushing or shifting an object from one place to another.

Let us arrimar the furniture to the corner over there. / It is impossible to arrimar this, it weighs too much.

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Coger

To grab, pick up, or move objects from one place to another (unlike in many other Latin American countries where this word is primarily a vulgarity for sex, it is often used literally in Venezuela).

We have to coger those glasses and bring them to this table. / Dude, we have to coger all those balls and take them to the stadium.

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Ansar

The act of lifting an object specifically by its handle, a distinction considered to be of obvious and vital necessity.

Can you ansar that bucket?

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pepenaron

to pick up or gather something from the ground (the word originates from the Nahuatl language and is widely used in Mexican-American communities to describe scavenging or picking things up one by one)

they pepenaron the beans

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bozal blanco

A crescent-shaped device lined with suede or similar material placed on a horse's face to force it to keep its head up. (It is used to block the horse's downward vision so it does not get distracted by its own front legs while running).

Some horses get distracted watching their front legs while galloping; when you put this bozal blanco on them, they lose their vision if they lower their heads, so they have to lift them up.

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Asoliviantar

To lift or hoist something up. Used primarily in the southern region of the Dominican Republic, it describes the action of raising an object higher, usually when two people are carrying it together (common regionalism in the southern part of the country).

Asoliviantalo a bit, let's asoliviantarlo more, so just asolivianta it more...

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República Dominicanaby HML64