arrimar
Meanings
Verb
1. to draw near (transitive)
2. to hang up (give up doing an activity) (transitive)
3. to thwack; bash; hit (transitive)
4. to live in sin (intransitive, pronominal)
5. to stay living on someone's elses house at the expense of them; to live in a person's house by freeloading (intransitive, pronominal, colloquial, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina)
Examples3
No arrimes tanto la mesa a la pared.
Don't put the table so close to the wall.
Al que a buen árbol se arrima, buena sombra le cobija.
He who approaches a good tree will find himself in good shade.
Al nopal solo se le arriman cuando tiene tunas.
Prickly pears are only harvested when they're bearing fruits.