desbastar
Portuguese, verb/dez.basˈta(ʁ)/
desbastar is spelled D-E-S-B-A-S-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 131,183rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desbastar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to thin out (to make sparser)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar menos basto, grosso”.
What does desbastar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to thin out (to make sparser)
- 2
to hew; to whittle (to cut or shape wood)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar menos basto, grosso 2. esculpir (a madeira)
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 desbastar
- desbasto first-person present singular
- desbastei first-person preterite singular
- desbastado participle past
- desbastares infinitive second-person singular
- desbastarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desbastardes infinitive plural second-person
- desbastarem infinitive plural third-person
- desbastando gerund
- desbastados masculine participle past
- desbastada feminine participle past
- desbastadas feminine participle past
- desbastas indicative present second-person
- desbasta indicative present singular
- desbastamos first-person indicative plural
- desbastais indicative plural present
- desbastam indicative plural present
- desbastava first-person imperfect indicative
- desbastavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desbastar?
- Brazil /dez.basˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [dez.basˈta(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒiz.basˈta(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desbastar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desbastar in Portuguese?
desbastar appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).