spränga
“spränga” is a Swedish word. Its 9 meanings in English:
verb
- to blow up, to blast (make (something) explode)
- to break
- to cause something (abstract) to (more or less violently) disintegrate, for example by (quickly) arresting enough people in a criminal gang or organization to cause it to break up
- to explode
- to go off, to burst, to detonate, to blow
- to hurt (as from (imagined) internal pressure)
- to ride quickly (on a horse or the like)
- to cure (poultry) in brine
- to remove upper part from a glass product (taken out of the annealer), usually after form blowing. It is removed by heating the trace made with a diamond pen around it, and then the edge must be polished before the product is done.
Etymology
From Old Swedish sprængia, from Old Norse sprengja, from Proto-Germanic *sprangijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *springaną. Doublet of springa.
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