acerbar
Portuguese, verb/a.seʁˈba(ʁ)/
acerbar is spelled A-C-E-R-B-A-R (7 letters). Acerbar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to exacerbate; to aggravate (to make something bad even worse)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar áspero, azedo; dar sabor acerbo”.
What does acerbar mean in English?
verb
- 1
rareto exacerbate; to aggravate (to make something bad even worse)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar áspero, azedo; dar sabor acerbo
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of acerbar
- acerbo first-person present singular
- acerbei first-person preterite singular
- acerbado participle past
- acerbares infinitive second-person singular
- acerbarmos first-person infinitive plural
- acerbardes infinitive plural second-person
- acerbarem infinitive plural third-person
- acerbando gerund
- acerbados masculine participle past
- acerbada feminine participle past
- acerbadas feminine participle past
- acerbas indicative present second-person
- acerba indicative present singular
- acerbamos first-person indicative plural
- acerbais indicative plural present
- acerbam indicative plural present
- acerbava first-person imperfect indicative
- acerbavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acerbar?
- Brazil /a.seʁˈba(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.seɦˈba(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.