embaçar

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From em- +‎ baço (lustreless) +‎ -ar..

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: em‧ba‧çar

Verb

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  1. (transitive) to reduce the luster or the transparency [of something]
  2. (reflexive) to lose luster or transparency
  3. (by extension) to make [an image, a picture] indistinct or hazy, to blur
  4. (figurative) to make more confusing, to obscure, to obfuscate
  5. (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.
  6. (figurative) to make less prestigious, to make less eminent, to outshine.

Conjugation

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References

  • 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.