desencadear
Portuguese, verb/de.zẽ.ka.d͡ʒiˈa(ʁ)/
desencadear is spelled D-E-S-E-N-C-A-D-E-A-R (11 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,997th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desencadear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to unchain, to unleash, to release (to remove chains from)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “soltar (aquilo que estava preso ou encadeado)”.
What does desencadear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unchain, to unleash, to release (to remove chains from)
- 2
to unleash (to precipitate; to bring about)
- 3
to trigger (to initiate something; to spark a response)
- 4
to burst; to erupt
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. soltar (aquilo que estava preso ou encadeado) 2. desligar 3. irritar 4. sublevar
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 desencadear
- desencadeio first-person present singular
- desencadeei first-person preterite singular
- desencadeado participle past
- desencadeares infinitive second-person singular
- desencadearmos first-person infinitive plural
- desencadeardes infinitive plural second-person
- desencadearem infinitive plural third-person
- desencadeando gerund
- desencadeados masculine participle past
- desencadeada feminine participle past
- desencadeadas feminine participle past
- desencadeias indicative present second-person
- desencadeia indicative present singular
- desencadeamos first-person indicative plural
- desencadeais indicative plural present
- desencadeiam indicative plural present
- desencadeava first-person imperfect indicative
- desencadeavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desencadear?
- Brazil /de.zẽ.ka.d͡ʒiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.zẽ.ka.d͡ʒiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /de.zẽ.kaˈd͡ʒja(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 desencadear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desencadear in Portuguese?
desencadear appears 2.8 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).