branquear
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Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: bran‧que‧ar
Verb
[edit]branquear (first-person singular present branqueio, first-person singular preterite branqueei, past participle branqueado)
- to bleach, to whiten (to make white or whiter)
- Synonym: embranquecer
- (money) to launder (to disguise the source of)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of branquear (e becomes ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “branquear”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “branquear”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Categories:
- Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰel- (shiny)
- Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰleyǵ-
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -ear
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese verbs
- Portuguese verbs ending in -ar
- Portuguese verbs with e becoming ei when stressed
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