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carbonizar

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐɾ.bu.niˈzaɾ/ [kɐɾ.βu.niˈzaɾ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐɾ.bu.niˈza.ɾi/ [kɐɾ.βu.niˈza.ɾi]

Verb

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carbonizar (first-person singular present carbonizo, first-person singular preterite carbonizei, past participle carbonizado)

  1. to char (to burn something to charcoal)
  2. (by extension) to burn completely
    • 1957, “Apresentação de Paulo Roberto”, performed by Orquestra Afro-Brasileira:
      Onde o sol queimou a pele dos homens
      Até carbonizá-la em negro
      Where the sun burnt the skin of men
      Until charring it black

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Spanish

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Etymology

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From carbón +‎ -izar.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /kaɾboniˈθaɾ/ [kaɾ.β̞o.niˈθaɾ]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kaɾboniˈsaɾ/ [kaɾ.β̞o.niˈsaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: car‧bo‧ni‧zar

Verb

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carbonizar (first-person singular present carbonizo, first-person singular preterite carbonicé, past participle carbonizado)

  1. (transitive) to carbonize
    • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 316:
      Tostando una golondrina viva hasta carbonizarla y reduciéndola a polvo
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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