alquebrar
Appearance
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish aliquebrar.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: al‧que‧brar
Verb
[edit]alquebrar (first-person singular present alquebro, first-person singular preterite alquebrei, past participle alquebrado)
- (transitive) to weaken (make the body lose strength)fazer perder o vigor do corpo a
- Synonyms: debilitar, enfraquecer
- (intransitive) to suffer curvature in the spinal column
- (intransitive) to weaken
- (intransitive, nautical) to deform (the hull of a ship) with the bow and stern sagging and the keel curved
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of alquebrar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
[edit]- “alquebrar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “alquebrar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025