desvariar
Spanish
Verb
desvariar (first-person singular present desvarío, first-person singular preterite desvarié, past participle desvariado)
- to become delusional, to lose one's mind
- 2015 October 14, “Nueva temporada”, in El País:
- La obra plantea el juego dramático del teatro dentro del teatro, puesto que los protagonistas son un anciano titiritero y sus dos ayudantes que representan El Quijote, pero el viejo Maese empieza a desvariar y toma a sus personajes por seres de carne y hueso.
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Conjugation
- Rule: stressed í in certain conjugations; monosyllabic forms do not have a written accent in certain conjugations.
- 1 Mostly obsolete form, now mainly used in legal jargon.
- 2 Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
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Further reading
- “desvariar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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