exalar
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin exhālāre (“to breath out”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: e‧xa‧lar
Verb
[edit]exalar (first-person singular present exalo, first-person singular preterite exalei, past participle exalado)
- (transitive, sometimes pronominal) to give off a smell
- (figurative, transitive) to ooze; to exude (to display an emotion blatantly)
- Synonym: exuberar
- Ela exalava alegria o dia inteiro.
- She was oozing joy the whole day.
- (figurative, transitive) to let out an audible expression (such as a sigh, complaint, shout or snore)
- (chiefly in translated works, intransitive) to exhale (to breathe out)
- Synonym: expirar
- (chiefly in translated works, transitive) to exhale (to expel from the lungs)
- Synonym: soltar
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of exalar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Alternative forms
[edit]Antonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “exalar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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