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cargar

/kaɾˈɡaɾ/ verb B1
  1. to load (to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage)) (transitive) · Los estibadores se negaron a cargar el barco. The dock workers refused to load the ship.
  2. to load (to fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition) (transitive) · Apreté el gatillo, pero no pasó nada. Me había olvidado de cargar el arma. I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
  3. to load (to insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc) (transitive) · Ahora que ha cargado la película [en la cámara], está lista para comenzar a filmar/grabar. Now that you've loaded the film [into the camera], it's ready to start shooting.
  4. to load (to load a software into the primary memory) (transitive) · Al abrir un programa por primera vez, primero tiene que cargar. When opening a program for first time, it has to load first.· No me carga la página web. The website doesn't load for me.
  5. to carry (to lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting) (transitive) · La persona que carga el equipaje de los viajeros en estaciones de tren y aeropuertos se llama maletero. The person who carries travelers' luggage at train stations and airports is called a porter.
  6. to charge (to replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet) (transitive) · Cargué la batería durante la noche. I charged the battery overnight.· No te olvides de cargar el taladro. Don't forget to charge the drill.
  7. to annoy, pester (transitive)
  8. to blitz
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Verb forms

Infinitive
cargar
Gerund
cargando
Past participle
cargado
Present (yo)
cargo
Preterite (yo)
cargué

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En el primero coincidíamos con la corriente de la vida, cargada de realidades virtuales que acaso no llegan nunca a actualizarse, pero que sentimos como infinitamente posibles; en el segundo estamos fuera de esta misma corriente, y aun fuera de nosotros, obligados a juzgar, a encerrar y distribuir las vivas aguas en los rígidos cangilones de las ideas ómnibus, a evaluar en moneda corriente lo más ajeno a toda mercadería.
Páginas escogidas, p. 2 · C1
de fronda y aromas y frutos cargado!
Páginas escogidas, p. 15 · C1
todo cargado de flor
Páginas escogidas, p. 15 · C1
Pero nuestros ojos están cargados de razón, y la razón analiza y disuelve.
Páginas escogidas, p. 17 · C1

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