tronar
Meanings
Verb
1. to thunder (intransitive, impersonal)
2. to bust, ruin (person) (transitive, colloquial)
3. to fail (not pass an exam) (intransitive, colloquial)
4. to crack (to make a cracking sound) (colloquial, of a body part)
5. to kill (someone) (transitive, colloquial, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica)
6. to die (intransitive, colloquial, Ecuador)
7. to fail (a student) (to give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour) (transitive, colloquial, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Cuba)
Examples5
Lo escuché tronar en la distancia.
I heard it thunder in the distance.
Tronó y entonces empezó a llover.
There was thunder and then it started to rain.
Primero tronó y luego empezó a llover.
First it thundered, and then it started to rain.
Te están tronando las tripas.
Your tummy's growling.
Se ve que te truena la reversa.
It shows that you're gay.