Spanish–English dictionary

enchuecar

To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

enchufado

(slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.

enchufar

(transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.

enchufe

People with whom one is acquainted who can offer help and influence.

enchular

(transitive) To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.

encía

(often, in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.

enciclopedia

A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.

encierro

(bullfighting) An event in which people run with bulls in the streets.

encima

Physically over; on top of; worn on top of, said of clothing. [first attested before 1150.]

encima de

Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. [from ca. 1150–1350]

encimera

In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.

encimera de cocina

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth) The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.

encimoso

(informal, usually, derogatory) Pathetically attached to, or possessive of someone, usually a significant other.

encina

An evergreen tree, Quercus ilex, native to the Mediterranean region.

encinta

(of egglaying animals, now, chiefly, metaphorically) Pregnant.

encintar

To bind with adhesive tape.

encizañado

Having become a stranger, of one who formerly was close, as a relative, friend, lover, or spouse.

enclaustrado

(sociology) (Of a person) who grew up being overprotected by parents or other guardians; often implies a lack of social skills or worldly experience.

enclaustramiento

The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.

enclaustrar

To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.

enclavar

(transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.

enclave

A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.

enclavijar

To twist or twine around something (or one another).

enclenque

Of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure.

enclocar

(transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.

encloquecer

(transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.

enclosetado

(informal) Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.

encluecar

(transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.

encoclar

(transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.

encoger

(intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.

encogerse

(intransitive) To bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear.

encogerse de hombros

(ambitransitive) To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc.

encogido

past participle of shrink

encojaperros

(colloquial) The starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa, a plant with sharp thorns.

encolar

(transitive) To join or attach something using glue.

encolerizado

Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.

encolerizar

(transitive) To fill with rage; to outrage; to provoke to frenzy; to make furious.

encolerizarse

(intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.

encomendar

(transitive) To praise or acclaim.

encomendería

A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.

encomiable

Meriting praise; worthy of high praise

encomienda

An assigned task.

encomio

The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation.

enconado

Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage.

enconar

(transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.

enconarse

(intransitive) To become angry.

encontentante

Which causes fulfilment; emotionally or artistically satisfying.

encontrar

(intransitive) To come near to; to pass; to visit.

encontrarse

To converge and finally touch or intersect.

encontrón

A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.

encontronazo

A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.

encorajar

To render (someone) bolder or more courageous; to encourage, to hearten.

encorajinar

(transitive) To fill with rage; to outrage; to provoke to frenzy; to make furious.

encordar

(intransitive) To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.

encorsetar

(transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds. [from 17th c.]

encorvado

Stooping; bent over.

encorvar

(transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.

encostradura

An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.

encrespado

(of the surface of water) Having many small, rough waves.

encriptación

(cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.

encriptado

Being in code; having been encrypted.

encriptar

(cryptography) To encode.

encrucijada

(figuratively, by analogy) A decision point; a turning point or opportunity to change a direction, a course, or a goal.

encuadernación

The art, craft or process of binding books.

encuadernar

(transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.

encuadrar

(transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.

encubierto

(figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.

encubrimiento

A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.

encubrir

(idiomatic) To conceal or disguise.

encuclillarse

(intransitive) To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down

encuentro

(boxing) A boxing match.

encueractriz

Someone who removes their clothing in a sexually provocative manner, especially as a form of paid entertainment.

encueratriz

Someone who removes their clothing in a sexually provocative manner, especially as a form of paid entertainment.

encuesta

(countable) A seeking or solicitation of donations, information, opinions, support, etc.

encuestar

(specifically, politics) To seek the support of (voters or a constituency) in a forthcoming election or poll through personal solicitation or public addresses.

encuestas

To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.

enculado

Having an aching desire for one's beloved.

encumbrar

(transitive) To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth (applied to persons, countries, etc.).

encurtido

(often, in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.

encurtir

(transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.

endaumen

Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.

endeble

Deficient in physical strength.

endecha

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. [from early 16th c.]

endemia

A disease affecting a number of people simultaneously, so as to show a distinct connection with certain localities.

endémico

(especially of diseases) Prevalent in a particular area or region, persistent within a population.

endémismo

An individual or species that is endemic to a region.

endemoniado

Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.

endentar

To interlace.

enderezar

(transitive, idiomatic) To correct; to make right or true.

endeudado

(usually with 'to') Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; indebted, obliged for a bounden duty.

endiablado

controlled by evil spirits.

endilgar

(transitive) To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit; to stick.

endiñar

(transitive) To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit; to stick.

endiosar

(transitive) To make into a god.

endo

(cycling) A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the bike is ridden on the front wheel.

endo-

in, into, towards, within.

endocardio

(anatomy, cardiology) A thin serous membrane that lines the interior of the heart.

endogamia

The practice of marrying or requiring to marry within one's own ethnic, religious, or social group.

endogámico

(often, pejorative) Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.

endopaciente

(healthcare) A patient whose treatment requires at least one night's residence in a hospital; a hospitalized patient.

endorsamiento

Support from an important, renowned figure of a media (celebrity, politics, sports, etc.), to get back up.

endorsar

(transitive) To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it.

endorso

The act or quality of endorsing

endosar

(transitive) To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it.

endoso

The act or quality of endorsing

endovenoso

Inside the veins.

endowed chair

(US, Philippines, informal) A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.

endulcorar

(transitive) To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.

endulzar

(figurative) To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.

endurador

Long-lasting without significant alteration; continuing through time in the same relative state.

endurante

Long-lasting without significant alteration; continuing through time in the same relative state.

endurar

To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.

endurecer

(transitive) To make stiff.

endurecer la política monetaria

(economics) To make money harder to borrow or obtain.

endurecerse

(intransitive) To become stiff.

endurecido

Unfeeling; pitiless; callous.

endurecimiento

The process by which something hardens.

ene

The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

enea

(AU) Any of various reed-like plants growing near water, especially Typha domingensis and Typha orientalis; cumbungi, wonga. [from 18th c.]

enebefobia

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of non-binary people and/or of non-binariness.

enebro

Any shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus of the cypress family, which is characterized by pointed, needle-like leaves and aromatic berry-like cones.

enechar

(transitive) To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive).

eneldo

Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.

enema

To administer an enema.

enemiga

Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.

enemigo

Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.

enemistad

A state of long-standing mutual hostility.

éneo

Made of bronze metal.

energético

(science) Possessing or pertaining to energy. [from 19th c.]

energía

Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.

energía cinética

(physics) The energy possessed by an object because of its motion, equal (nonrelativistically) to one half the mass of the body times the square of its speed.

energía potencial

The energy possessed by an object because of its position (in a gravitational or electric field), or its condition (as a stretched or compressed spring, as a chemical reactant, or by having rest mass).

enérgicamente

In an active manner.

Enérgico

The first reindeer of Santa Claus.

energizar

To call to account; to challenge.

energizarse

(transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.

enero

The first month of the Gregorian calendar, following the December of the previous year and preceding February.

enervar

(transitive, figurative, informal) To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.

enfadado

Displaying or feeling anger.

enfadar

(transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.

enfadarse

(intransitive) To become angry.

enfado

A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to yell, say curse words, and/or physically harm or cause damage or destruction to things or attack or assault living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, or unfair or unjust treatment, or a situation not going the way one had desired or planned.

enfadoso

Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.

enfangado

Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud.

enfangar

(transitive) To corrupt or damage.

énfasis

Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.

enfastiado

Made callous or cynically insensitive, by experience.

enfastiar

To cause an intense dislike for something.

enfáticamente

In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.

enfático

Characterized by emphasis; forceful.