aterrorizar
Portuguese, verb/a.te.ʁo.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
aterrorizar is spelled A-T-E-R-R-O-R-I-Z-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 34,608th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aterrorizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to terrorise (to fill with terror)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “amedrontar”.
What does aterrorizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to terrorise (to fill with terror)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. amedrontar 2. apavorar 3. horrorizar-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 aterrorizar
- aterrorizo first-person present singular
- aterrorizei first-person preterite singular
- aterrorizado participle past
- aterrorizares infinitive second-person singular
- aterrorizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- aterrorizardes infinitive plural second-person
- aterrorizarem infinitive plural third-person
- aterrorizando gerund
- aterrorizados masculine participle past
- aterrorizada feminine participle past
- aterrorizadas feminine participle past
- aterrorizas indicative present second-person
- aterroriza indicative present singular
- aterrorizamos first-person indicative plural
- aterrorizais indicative plural present
- aterrorizam indicative plural present
- aterrorizava first-person imperfect indicative
- aterrorizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aterrorizar?
- Brazil /a.te.ʁo.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.te.ho.ɾiˈza(h)]
- /a.te.ʁo.ɾiˈza(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 aterrorizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aterrorizar in Portuguese?
aterrorizar 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).