avasallador

Spanish

FWOTD – 10 December 2023

Etymology

From avasallar +‎ -dor.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /abasaʝaˈdoɾ/ [a.β̞a.sa.ʝaˈð̞oɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /abasaʝaˈdoɾ/ [a.β̞a.sa.ʝaˈð̞oɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /abasaʎaˈdoɾ/ [a.β̞a.sa.ʎaˈð̞oɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /abasaʃaˈdoɾ/ [a.β̞a.sa.ʃaˈð̞oɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /abasaʒaˈdoɾ/ [a.β̞a.sa.ʒaˈð̞oɾ]

• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: a‧va‧sa‧lla‧dor

Adjective

avasallador (feminine avasalladora, masculine plural avasalladores, feminine plural avasalladoras)

1. overwhelming; deadly; deafening
   • 1884, Benito Pérez Galdos, Tormento:

     […] entrole al misántropo una ansiedad vivísima; deseo repentino, apremiante y avasallador de vaciar de una vez todas las congojas de su alma en el pecho de un buen amigo.

     […] The misanthrope was overcome by an incredibly intense anxiety, and a sudden urgent overwhelming desire to spill all his heart's woes out to a close friend.

   • 1888, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Ismael‎^[1], Buenos Aires: La Tribuna Nacional:

     […] tenía en los ojos una fuerza avasalladora

     […] [he] had a deadly strength in his eyes

   • 1989, Fernando Durán Ayanegui, Retorno al Kilimanjaro:

     Un avasallador olor a vómito y a sobaquina impregnaba todos los rincones

     An overwhelming smell of vomit and armpits permeated every corner

   • 2015, Julio Cabrera, Cine: 100 años de filosofía: Una introducción a la filosofía:

     En las películas de Antonioni y Wim Wenders (las anteriores a París/Texas, sobre todo), los silencios son avasalladores.

     In the films of Atonioni and Wim Wenders (especially those prior to Paris/Texas), the silences are deafening.

2. domineering

Derived terms

• avasalladoramente

 

Noun

avasallador m (plural avasalladores, feminine avasalladora, feminine plural avasalladoras)

1. usurper; subjugator

Further reading

• “avasallador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10