embaçar
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From em- + baço (“lustreless”) + -ar..
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: em‧ba‧çar
Verb
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- (transitive) to reduce the luster or the transparency [of something]
- (reflexive) to lose luster or transparency
- (by extension) to make [an image, a picture] indistinct or hazy, to blur
- (figurative) to make more confusing, to obscure, to obfuscate
- (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.
- (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.