asoballar

Uncertain. Cognate with Spanish sobajar.[1]

• IPA^(key): /asoβaˈʎaɾ/

asoballar (first-person singular present asoballo, first-person singular preterite asoballei, past participle asoballado)

1. (transitive) to trample

   Synonym: trepar

2. (transitive, figurative) to oppress

   Synonyms: esmagar, oprimir

3. (transitive, figurative) to humiliate

   Synonym: humillar

   • 1934, Castelao, Os dous de sempre, page 127:

     […] os empregados non se deixan asoballar pola súa maldade, e o mesmo porteiro deprendeu a poñerlle cara de can. Somente Pedro é un manteiguiñas, incapaz de defenderse. A covardía do xefe cabalga na covardía de Pedro, para locí-las arroutadas que non é quen de descargar no lombo dos outros. Pedro sofre en silenzo; pero cóme-no as xenreiras, e non pode ollá-la cara daquel home sen desexarlle a morte.

     […] employees don't let him humiliate them with his meanness, and even the doorman learnt to put an angry face for him. But Pedro is a poor thing, unable to defend himself. The boss' cowardice rides Pedro's, to show off the outbursts that he is incapable of discharging over other's shoulders. Pedro suffers in silence; but spite eats him, and he can't watch that man's face without wishing him death.

• “asoballar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “asoballar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “asoballar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.