acovardar
Portuguese, verb/a.ko.vaʁˈda(ʁ)/
acovardar is spelled A-C-O-V-A-R-D-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 91,721st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acovardar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to make someone lose their courage; to frighten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o mesmo que acobardar”.
What does acovardar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make someone lose their courage; to frighten
As ameaças de processo me acovardaram.
- 2
to lose one’s courage; to chicken out
Eu queria pular, mas me acovardei.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. o mesmo que acobardar
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 acovardar
- acovardo first-person present singular
- acovardei first-person preterite singular
- acovardado participle past
- acovardares infinitive second-person singular
- acovardarmos first-person infinitive plural
- acovardardes infinitive plural second-person
- acovardarem infinitive plural third-person
- acovardando gerund
- acovardados masculine participle past
- acovardada feminine participle past
- acovardadas feminine participle past
- acovardas indicative present second-person
- acovarda indicative present singular
- acovardamos first-person indicative plural
- acovardais indicative plural present
- acovardam indicative plural present
- acovardava first-person imperfect indicative
- acovardavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acovardar?
- Brazil /a.ko.vaʁˈda(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.ko.vaɦˈda(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is acovardar in Portuguese?
acovardar appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).