alquebrar
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish aliquebrar.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: al‧que‧brar
Verb edit
alquebrar (first-person singular present alquebro, first-person singular preterite alquebrei, past participle alquebrado)
- (transitive) to weaken (make the body lose strength)fazer perder o vigor do corpo a
- Synonyms: debilitar, enfraquecer
- (intransitive) to suffer curvature in the spinal column
- (intransitive) to weaken
- (intransitive, nautical) to deform (the hull of a ship) with the bow and stern sagging and the keel curved
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of alquebrar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading edit
- “alquebrar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “alquebrar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.