martirizar
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Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: mar‧ti‧ri‧zar
Verb
[edit]martirizar (first-person singular present martirizo, first-person singular preterite martirizei, past participle martirizado)
- (transitive) to martyr (to make someone a martyr)
- (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 […] ?
- (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?
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of martirizar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
[edit]- “martirizar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “martirizar”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “martirizar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
- “martirizar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
Spanish
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /maɾtiɾiˈθaɾ/ [maɾ.t̪i.ɾiˈθaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /maɾtiɾiˈsaɾ/ [maɾ.t̪i.ɾiˈsaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: mar‧ti‧ri‧zar
Verb
[edit]martirizar (first-person singular present martirizo, first-person singular preterite martiricé, past participle martirizado)
- to martyr (make someone a martyr)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of martirizar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of martirizar (c-z alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading
[edit]- “martirizar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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