afastar
Portuguese, verb/a.fasˈta(ʁ)/
afastar is spelled A-F-A-S-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,969th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Afastar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to repel; to push away (cause to move away)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “transitivo”.
What does afastar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to repel; to push away (cause to move away)
Este spray não conseguiu afastar os mosquitos.
- 2
to drive apart (cause to stop being close, intimate)
A disputa pela herança afastou os irmãos.
- 3
to step back; to move away
Afaste-se do fogo!
- 4
to dissociate; to distance oneself (stop associating (with))
Resolvi me afastar dos meus falsos amigos.
- 5
to suspend (temporarily ban someone from their job)
CNJ afasta desembargador que concedeu prisão domiciliar a suspeito de liderar facção criminosa na BA
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. transitivo: 2. desviar: 3. distanciar: 4. reflexo:
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 afastar
- afasto first-person present singular
- afastei first-person preterite singular
- afastado participle past
- afastares infinitive second-person singular
- afastarmos first-person infinitive plural
- afastardes infinitive plural second-person
- afastarem infinitive plural third-person
- afastando gerund
- afastados masculine participle past
- afastada feminine participle past
- afastadas feminine participle past
- afastas indicative present second-person
- afasta indicative present singular
- afastamos first-person indicative plural
- afastais indicative plural present
- afastam indicative plural present
- afastava first-person imperfect indicative
- afastavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce afastar?
- Brazil /a.fasˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.fasˈta(h)]
- /a.fasˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is afastar in Portuguese?
afastar appears 21 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).