apavorar
Portuguese, verb/a.pa.voˈɾa(ʁ)/
apavorar is spelled A-P-A-V-O-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 59,634th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apavorar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to scare” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “meter pavor a”.
What does apavorar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scare
- 2
to horrify
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. meter pavor a 2. horrorizar 3. causar impacto
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 apavorar
- apavoro first-person present singular
- apavorei first-person preterite singular
- apavorado participle past
- apavorares infinitive second-person singular
- apavorarmos first-person infinitive plural
- apavorardes infinitive plural second-person
- apavorarem infinitive plural third-person
- apavorando gerund
- apavorados masculine participle past
- apavorada feminine participle past
- apavoradas feminine participle past
- apavoras indicative present second-person
- apavora indicative present singular
- apavoramos first-person indicative plural
- apavorais indicative plural present
- apavoram indicative plural present
- apavorava first-person imperfect indicative
- apavoravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apavorar?
- Brazil /a.pa.voˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.pa.voˈɾa(h)]
- /a.pa.voˈɾa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to apavorar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apavorar in Portuguese?
apavorar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).