( idatzitakoa)

[from Rom. *effasiare, cf. Fr. "effacer"] du/ad.

1. ( idatzitakoa, e.a.)

a. ( oro.) to erase, wipe away; hondarrean idazten dena laster ezabatzen da what's written in sand is soon wiped away

b. ( marrak jarriaz) to cross out; zerrandako zenbait \ezabaturik agertzen dira some on the list appear crossed out

c. Inform. to delete

2. ( ezeztatu)

a. to wipe out, obliterate, remove, do away with; haren hilketaren aztarna guztiak ezabatzeko in order to {obliterate || remove} all traces of his murder; naziotasuna ukatzen digutenek, logika osoaz Eskola Nazionala eraikitzeko eskubidea \ezabatu nahi digute those who deny us our nationhood logically wish to do away with the right for us to build our National School

b. to wipe away; haurtzaroko orbainak gaztaroak ezabatzen ditu the scars of childhood are wiped away by one's youth

3. ( ezkutatu, gorde) Arkaismoa. to keep, hold in; bere haserrea ezabatzen badoa he's holding his anger in da/ad. Arkaismoa. to hide away, steal away, vanish; hori esan eta \ezabatu zen aingerua the angel said that and vanished

iz.

a. reminder, momento

b. memory; gizon haren \oroitzapena ohoratzeko to honour the memory of that man

2. ( idatzitakoa) \oroitzapenak memoires; Khrusxtxev-en \oroitzapenetan in Khrushchev's memoires

3. ( oroipena) memory; Ameriketako \oroitzapenak memories of America

iz.

1. Hegazt. guinea fowl

2. ( idatzitakoa) graffiti

iz.

a. ( ahalegina) attempt, try, go, endeavour (GB), endeavor (USA) ; alferrikako \saioak vain attempts; lur jota ikusten genuen aktore hura azken urteetan, \saio adina huts egiten ezkontzan eta zineman it was sorrowful for us to see that actor, over the last few years, fail in marriage and on the silver screen as often as he tried; hiru donostiar atxolotu zituzten "hondamendi \saioagatik" three people from Donostia were arrested for "attempted destruction"

b. ( esperimentua) experiment; halako batean, \saio-antzean bezala, hiztegi hau egiten hasi nintzen one day, as a kind of experiment, I started work on this dictionary; \saio-tankera du it's got an experimental air to it

c. ( helburua lortzen ez duen ekintza) ; lapurreta-\saioa robbery attempt; estatu-kolpe \saioa coup attempt

d. [ izen aurrean ] \saio-euskara batean in an attempt at Basque

a. ( jardunaldia) session; afalondoan bertso-\saio bat egin zuten kafetxo bana hartuta after dinner they had a ad-lib verse session over a bit of coffee; goizero gimanasia-\saioa egiten du he does gymnastic exercise every morning; txistulariek \saioa azkendu zutenean when "txistu" flute players closed the session

b. ITB. (emanaldia) broadcast

3. test, run

4. ( idatzitakoa) essay