alejaron

Alejaron is the third-person plural preterite (pretérito indefinido) form of the Spanish verb alejar, meaning to move away or to distance. It can describe a physical action of shifting something or someone away, or a figurative action of creating distance from a person, place, or situation.

Usage examples illustrate its transitive use with a direct object and with a phrase indicating what is moved away. For instance: Los guardias alejaron a los curiosos de la escena. (The guards kept the curious people away from the scene.) La tormenta alejó las nubes del horizonte. (The storm moved the clouds away from the horizon.) In narrative contexts, alejó often signals a completed past action.

Related forms include alejar (infinitive) and alejarse (reflexive form, meaning to move away from oneself or to distance oneself from something): se aleja, se alejan. Other tenses of the verb are conjugated regularly.

Notes on usage: alejaron can be used in literal senses, such as distancing people or objects, and in figurative senses, such as distancing a crowd from an event or distancing oneself from ideas or practices. The form appears in literature, news, and everyday speech and is understood across Spanish-speaking communities.