desenterrar
Portuguese, verb/de.zẽ.teˈʁa(ʁ)/
desenterrar is spelled D-E-S-E-N-T-E-R-R-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 35,057th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desenterrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to exhume; to unearth (to dig out of the ground)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer sair de debaixo da terra”.
What does desenterrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exhume; to unearth (to dig out of the ground)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer sair de debaixo da terra 2. tirar da sepultura; exumar 3. descobrir, patentear 4. trazer à luz o que estava esquecido
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 desenterrar
- desenterro first-person present singular
- desenterrei first-person preterite singular
- desenterrado participle past
- desenterrares infinitive second-person singular
- desenterrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desenterrardes infinitive plural second-person
- desenterrarem infinitive plural third-person
- desenterrando gerund
- desenterrados masculine participle past
- desenterrada feminine participle past
- desenterradas feminine participle past
- desenterras indicative present second-person
- desenterra indicative present singular
- desenterramos first-person indicative plural
- desenterrais indicative plural present
- desenterram indicative plural present
- desenterrava first-person imperfect indicative
- desenterravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desenterrar?
- Brazil /de.zẽ.teˈʁa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.zẽ.teˈha(h)]
- Brazil /de.zĩ.teˈʁa(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 desenterrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desenterrar in Portuguese?
desenterrar 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).