No. 4,079 in Catalan
desnonar
To evict.
In a sentence
El banc ha decidit desnonar la família per no pagar el lloguer.
The bank has decided to evict the family for not paying the rent.
In this sentence, the word 'desnonar' is used in the legal sense, referring to the act of evicting someone from their residence due to non-compliance with economic obligations.
Van desnonar les antigues idees que ja no servien.
They discarded the old ideas that were no longer useful.
Here, 'desnonar' is applied metaphorically to mean rejecting or dismissing outdated concepts or ideologies.
El malalt va ser desnonat pels metges perquè no hi havia tractament possible.
The patient was declared beyond medical help by doctors as no treatment was possible.
This sentence uses 'desnonar' in the context of medicine to indicate the act of a patient being deemed incurable or beyond available assistance.
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