descontaminar
Portuguese, verb/des.kõ.ta.miˈna(ʁ)/
descontaminar is spelled D-E-S-C-O-N-T-A-M-I-N-A-R (13 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 133,944th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descontaminar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to decontaminate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “eliminar ou reduzir os efeitos de agentes contaminantes em algo ou alguém; purificar, purgar”.
What does descontaminar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to decontaminate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eliminar ou reduzir os efeitos de agentes contaminantes em algo ou alguém; purificar, purgar 2. tornar livre de microrganismos nocivos ou de substâncias prejudiciais 3. remover ou neutralizar poluentes de solos, águas ou ar
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 descontaminar
- descontamino first-person present singular
- descontaminei first-person preterite singular
- descontaminado participle past
- descontaminares infinitive second-person singular
- descontaminarmos first-person infinitive plural
- descontaminardes infinitive plural second-person
- descontaminarem infinitive plural third-person
- descontaminando gerund
- descontaminados masculine participle past
- descontaminada feminine participle past
- descontaminadas feminine participle past
- descontaminas indicative present second-person
- descontamina indicative present singular
- descontaminamos first-person indicative plural
- descontaminais indicative plural present
- descontaminam indicative plural present
- descontaminava first-person imperfect indicative
- descontaminavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descontaminar?
- Brazil /des.kõ.ta.miˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [des.kõ.ta.miˈna(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.kõ.ta.miˈna(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is descontaminar in Portuguese?
descontaminar appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).