embaçar
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From em- + baço (“lustreless”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈsa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.baˈsa(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈsa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.baˈsa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈsa(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈsa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈsa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.baˈsa(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈsa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.baˈsa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.baˈsa(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.baˈsa(ɻ)/
- Hyphenation: em‧ba‧çar
Verb
[edit]embaçar (first-person singular present embaço, first-person singular preterite embacei, past participle embaçado)
- (transitive) to reduce the luster or the transparency [of something]
- (reflexive) to lose luster or transparency
- (by extension) to make [an image, a picture] indistinct or hazy, to blur
- (figurative) to make more confusing, to obscure, to obfuscate
- (figurative, by extension) to deceive
- 1881, Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas:
- [E] o melhor da obrigação é quando, à força de embaçar os outros, embaça-se um homem a si mesmo[.]
- And the best part of the obligation comes when, by deceiving others, a man deceives himself.
- (figurative) to make less prestigious, to make less eminent, to outshine
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of embaçar (c-ç alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
References
[edit]- HOUAISS, A. and DE SALLES VILLAR, M. Minidicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa. Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, 2008.
- Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa. São Paulo: Encyclopaedia Britannica do Brasil Publicações Ltda., 1976.
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