parar
Meanings
Verb
1. to stop, halt (transitive or intransitive, intransitive, transitive)
2. to stand up (intransitive, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, Colombia, Venezuela, Andes Mountains, Chile, Rioplatense)
3. to put something in a vertical position (transitive, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Caribbean, Colombia, Venezuela, Andes Mountains, Chile, Paraguay, Rioplatense)
4. to put someone in a vertical position (transitive, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Rioplatense)
5. to get up (from bed) (reflexive, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia)
6. to become erect (in the sense of upright) (reflexive, at least some of Latin America)
7. (of one's penis) to become erect (reflexive, vulgar, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, South America)
8. see pararlas (Chile)
9. to tend to do or to be (followed by a gerund) (Peru, colloquial, periphrastic or semicopulative)
Examples475
se me paró la verga
my dick got hard
Me paro a las 6 am
I get up at 6 am
Tom hizo parar a Mary.
Tom made Mary stop.
No he parado de hacerlo.
I haven't stopped doing that.
Ella no puede pararlos.
She can't stop them.
Yo no lo podía parar.
I couldn't stop it.