abatir
Meanings
Verb
1. to bring down, to shoot down (transitive)
2. to swoop down (transitive, reflexive)
3. to demolish, to knock down, to defeat (transitive, reflexive)
4. to depress (to make depressed) or discourage (transitive, reflexive)
5. to humble (obsolete, transitive, reflexive)
Examples6
La derrota lo abatió completamente.
The defeat completely crushed him.
Las noticias le han abatido mucho.
The news depressed him very much.
Tom abatió un ciervo.
Tom shot a deer.
El ciervo fue abatido por cazadores.
The deer was killed by hunters.
El francotirador fue abatiendo sus víctimas una por una.
The sniper picked off his victims one by one.
Apunté a un gorrión, pero abatí una oca.
I aimed at a sparrow, but shot down a goose.