arrollamiento

Spanish

Etymology

From arrollar +‎ -miento.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /aroʝaˈmjento/ [a.ro.ʝaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (most of Spain and Latin America)
  • IPA(key): /aroʎaˈmjento/ [a.ro.ʎaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
  • IPA(key): /aroʃaˈmjento/ [a.ro.ʃaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (Buenos Aires and environs)
  • IPA(key): /aroʒaˈmjento/ [a.ro.ʒaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Syllabification: a‧rro‧lla‧mien‧to

Noun

arrollamiento m (plural arrollamientos)

  1. running over
    • 2015 November 22, “Columna”, in El País[1]:
      Y concluye: “Si los partidarios de la conservación del orden no dan muestras de ceder un ápice en sus posiciones, es natural que sus adversarios pierdan la paciencia y pasen a propugnar métodos de arrollamiento, en tanto que los grupos inmovilistas buscan por su parte instrumentos de violencia para impedir a aquéllos lograr su propósito”.
      And he concludes: “If the supporters of the preservation of order do not show signs of yielding an iota in their positions, it is natural that their opponents lose patience and begin to advocate methods of overrun, while the immobilist groups themselves seek instruments of violence to prevent those from achieving their purpose”.

Further reading