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martirizar

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    From mártir + -izar.

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    • Hyphenation: mar‧ti‧ri‧zar

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    martirizar (first-person singular present martirizo, first-person singular preterite martirizei, past participle martirizado)

    1. (transitive) to martyr (to make someone a martyr)
    2. (transitive) to torment (to cause severe suffering)
      Synonym: atormentar
      • 1899, Inglês de Sousa, chapter XIII, in O missionário [The missionary], Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert & Cia, page 362:
        Que outro sacerdote nas suas condições, no nosso seculo prosaico e interesseiro, abandonaria os commodos d’uma vigararia socegada e pouco trabalhosa, para aventurar-se em afanosa missão aos rios do interior da provincia [] deixando-se martyrisar pelos terriveis insectos das margens dos rios [] ?
        What other priest in his condition, in our ordinary, self-serving century, would abandon the conveniences of a calm, low-effort vicarship, to venture on a laborious mission to the rivers of the province's interior [] letting the terrible insects at the river banks torment him [] ?
    3. (reflexive) to beat up (to feel badly guilty and accuse oneself over something) [with por ‘for something’]
      • 2015, Stéfano Mariotto de Moura, “Tribunal [Court]” (chapter 26), in A Cabana do Uruguai [The Uruguayan Cabin], Rio de Janeiro: Multifoco, →ISBN, page 240:
        Querido, pare de se martirizar. Como é que tu ias saber? Como é que o Soza ia saber?
        Darling, stop beating yourself up. How could you know it? How could Soza know it?

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    Etymology

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      From mártir + -izar.

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      martirizar (first-person singular present martirizo, first-person singular preterite martiricé, past participle martirizado)

      1. to martyr (make someone a martyr)

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