esfacelar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /is.fa.seˈla(ʁ)/ [is.fa.seˈla(h)], /es.fa.seˈla(ʁ)/ [es.fa.seˈla(h)]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /is.fa.seˈla(ɾ)/, /es.fa.seˈla(ɾ)/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʃ.fa.seˈla(ʁ)/ [iʃ.fa.seˈla(χ)], /eʃ.fa.seˈla(ʁ)/ [eʃ.fa.seˈla(χ)]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /es.fa.seˈla(ɻ)/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /(i)ʃ.fɐ.sɨˈlaɾ/

  • Hyphenation: es‧fa‧ce‧lar

Verb

esfacelar (first-person singular present esfacelo, first-person singular preterite esfacelei, past participle esfacelado)

  1. to destroy
    • 1995, José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, Caminho:
      [] quem poderia saber que vapores, que emanações, que venenosos miasmas não estariam já a desprender-se da carne esfacelada dos cegos.
      [] who knew what vapors, what emanations, what poisonous miasmas weren't already being released from the destroyed flesh of the blind people.

Conjugation

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