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atemorizar

Portuguese, verb/a.te.mo.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/

atemorizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to frighten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “provocar temor, medo; aterrorizar”.

What does atemorizar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to frighten

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. provocar temor, medo; aterrorizar: 2. sentir temor; assustar-se:

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 atemorizar

  • atemorizo first-person present singular
  • atemorizei first-person preterite singular
  • atemorizado participle past
  • atemorizares infinitive second-person singular
  • atemorizarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • atemorizardes infinitive plural second-person
  • atemorizarem infinitive plural third-person
  • atemorizando gerund
  • atemorizados masculine participle past
  • atemorizada feminine participle past
  • atemorizadas feminine participle past
  • atemorizas indicative present second-person
  • atemoriza indicative present singular
  • atemorizamos first-person indicative plural
  • atemorizais indicative plural present
  • atemorizam indicative plural present
  • atemorizava first-person imperfect indicative
  • atemorizavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce atemorizar?

  • Brazil /a.te.mo.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [a.te.mo.ɾiˈza(h)]
  • /a.te.mo.ɾiˈza(ɾ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is atemorizar in Portuguese?

atemorizar appears about once in every 34 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).