clavar

article & verb transitive

1. To nail; to fasten with nails; to fasten in, to force in.

2. To stick, to prick, to gore; to introduce a pointed thing into another.

Se clavó un alfiler -> he pricked himself with a pin

Me clavé una espina -> I pricked myself with a thorn

Clavar los ojo -> or la vista, to stare, to look with fixed eyes

3. To cheat, to deceive.

Me clavaron 50 dólares -> they stung me for 50 dollars

4. To set in gold or silver.

5. To ground. (Military)

verb reflexive

6. To penetrate, to go in.

7. Clavarse una astilla en el dedo, to get a splinter in one’s finger.

8. (fig.) To be mistaken.

9. Clavársela, to get drunk.

10. To pocket something. (Mexico)