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hinchar

to inflate

verb een-CHAHR Rare

Also means

to swell

Usage Note

Hinchar means to inflate physically (a tyre, a balloon) and also to swell due to injury or illness. The reflexive hincharse describes swelling up: se me hinchó el tobillo ('my ankle swelled up'). In colloquial Spain, hincharse de also means to eat or do something to excess: nos hinchamos de reír ('we laughed our heads off').

Examples

"Hay que hinchar las ruedas de la bicicleta."

Natural Translation

You need to inflate the bicycle tyres.

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