echar
Meanings
Verb
1. to throw, toss, cast, jettison (to release an object from one's grasp so that it moves through the air) (transitive)
2. to pour (to cause to flow in a stream from a container) (transitive)
3. to put in, add (transitive)
4. to let out (transitive)
5. to discharge (transitive)
6. to dump (transitive)
7. to emit, give off, send out (transitive)
8. to kick out, expel, throw out, to send packing (to forcibly remove) (transitive)
9. to expel (to remove from membership) (transitive)
10. to fire, dismiss (to terminate employment) (transitive)
11. to play (to participate in a sport) (transitive)
12. to sprout (to cause to grow from a seed) (transitive)
13. to take, have (a look at) (transitive)
14. to mail, post (to send through the mail/post) (transitive)
15. to give, bestow (a blessing); to put (a curse) on (transitive)
16. to turn (a key); to slide (a bolt) (transitive)
17. to start off, begin (intransitive)
18. to throw oneself (reflexive)
19. to lie down (to assume a reclining position) (reflexive)
20. to put on (reflexive)
21. to begin (sometimes reflexive)
22. to sit on eggs (reflexive, of birds)
23. to give in, to yield (reflexive)
24. to take (a nap) (reflexive, Spain)
25. lie, lie down (on a bed, etc.) (reflexive, Spain)
26. sleep, take a nap (reflexive, Spain, by extension)
Examples619
Echamos un partido.
We're playing a match.
Al pobre lo han echado del trabajo.
They fired the poor thing from work.
Te vamos a echar del club de lectura.
We're going to expel you from the reading club.
Se echó a llorar.
He began to cry.
Échale un ojo.
Take a look at it.
Eché a correr.
I started running.