tolher
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin tollere (“to raise; to take away; to destroy”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: to‧lher
Verb
[edit]tolher (first-person singular present tolho, first-person singular preterite tolhi, past participle tolhido)
- (transitive) to hamper, to hinder, to impede
- Synonyms: dificultar, obstruir, obstar, estorvar
- 1990, Jostein Gaarder, chapter 20, in O Mundo de Sofia, page 273:
- Uma pressão exterior é capaz de nos tolher.
- An exterior pressure is capable of hindering us.
- (transitive) to prohibit, to disallow
- Synonym: proibir
- (reflexive) to paralyze (to inhibit movement of the body)
- Synonym: paralisar
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of tolher (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
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