debelar
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin dēbellāre.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: de‧be‧lar
Verb edit
debelar (first-person singular present debelo, first-person singular preterite debelei, past participle debelado)
- (transitive, military) to win, to conquer
- (transitive, medicine) to neutralize/neutralise, to stop the effects of (e.g. a disease)
- Synonyms: neutralizar, refrear, reprimir
- (transitive, by extension) to stop or prevent
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of debelar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin dēbellāre.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
debelar (first-person singular present debelo, first-person singular preterite debelé, past participle debelado)
- (transitive) to conquer
- Synonym: conquistar
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of debelar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading edit
- “debelar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014