desmatar
Portuguese, verb/dez.maˈta(ʁ)/
desmatar is spelled D-E-S-M-A-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 77,804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desmatar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to clear (to fell all trees of a forest)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “retirar a cobertura vegetal”.
What does desmatar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to clear (to fell all trees of a forest)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. retirar a cobertura vegetal
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 desmatar
- desmato first-person present singular
- desmatei first-person preterite singular
- desmatado participle past
- desmatares infinitive second-person singular
- desmatarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desmatardes infinitive plural second-person
- desmatarem infinitive plural third-person
- desmatando gerund
- desmatados masculine participle past
- desmatada feminine participle past
- desmatadas feminine participle past
- desmatas indicative present second-person
- desmata indicative present singular
- desmatamos first-person indicative plural
- desmatais indicative plural present
- desmatam indicative plural present
- desmatava first-person imperfect indicative
- desmatavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desmatar?
- Brazil /dez.maˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [dez.maˈta(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒiz.maˈta(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desmatar in Portuguese?
desmatar appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).