afugentar
Portuguese, verb/a.fu.ʒẽˈta(ʁ)/
afugentar is spelled A-F-U-G-E-N-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 40,952nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Afugentar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to chase (off)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer fugir”.
What does afugentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chase (off)
- 2
to shoo
- 3
to repel
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer fugir 2. enxotar 3. repelir 4. afastar
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 afugentar
- afugento first-person present singular
- afugentei first-person preterite singular
- afugentado participle past
- afugentares infinitive second-person singular
- afugentarmos first-person infinitive plural
- afugentardes infinitive plural second-person
- afugentarem infinitive plural third-person
- afugentando gerund
- afugentados masculine participle past
- afugentada feminine participle past
- afugentadas feminine participle past
- afugentas indicative present second-person
- afugenta indicative present singular
- afugentamos first-person indicative plural
- afugentais indicative plural present
- afugentam indicative plural present
- afugentava first-person imperfect indicative
- afugentavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce afugentar?
- Brazil /a.fu.ʒẽˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.fu.ʒẽˈta(h)]
- /a.fu.ʒẽˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is afugentar in Portuguese?
afugentar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).