arrencar

Pronúncia: ərəŋká
    verb transitiu
  1. [planta, etc.] to pull up, root out.
  2. [dent] to extract, pull (out).
  3. [cabell, etc.] to pluck out
  4. [branca, etc.] to tear off, tear away.
  5. [paper, etc.] to tear out, rip out.
  6. [expectoració, flegma] to bring up.
  7. [espasa] to draw.
  8. [prendre amb violència] to snatch, snatch away (de from).
  9. to wrench, wrest.
  10. un lladre li va arrencar la bossa de mà a thief snatched her handbag.
  11. arrencar algú de la mort to (snatch \ rescue) someone from the jaws of death.
  12. arrencar una promesa a algú to force a promise out of someone.
  13. [començar bruscament] to start, set off.
  14. automòbil, automobilisme to start.
  15. arrencar el plor to burst into tears.
  16. arrencar a córrer to break into a run.
  17. arrencar el vol to take off.
    18. verb intransitiu
  18. [tenir el seu origen] to come from, spring from, originate in.
  19. to go back to.
  20. aquestes idees arrenquen de l’Edat Mitjana these ideas go back to the Middle Ages.
  21. arquitectura to spring from.
  22. els arcs arrenquen dels capitells the arches spring from the capitals.