atear

Portuguese

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.teˈa(ʁ)/ [a.teˈa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /a.teˈa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.teˈa(ʁ)/ [a.teˈa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.teˈa(ɻ)/

atear (first-person singular present ateio, first-person singular preterite ateei, past participle ateado)

(transitive) to set (a fire) [with fogo ‘fire’ and a ‘to something’]
A Polícia Judiciária deteve um homem suspeito de ter ateado fogo a casa da mãe.
The Judiciary Police arrested a man suspected of having set fire to his mother's house.
(transitive) to kindle, to make more intense (a fire, flame, etc.)
(reflexive) to blaze, to become more intense (of a fire, flame, etc.)
(transitive, figurative) to kindle, to ignite, to inflame [with direct object ‘one's soul, etc.’; or with direct object ‘an emotion’ and em ‘in someone’]
(reflexive, figurative) to blaze, to intensify (of an emotion) [with em ‘in someone’]

Conjugation of atear (e becomes ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.