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desprestigiar

Portuguese, verb/d͡ʒis.pɾis.t͡ʃi.ʒiˈa(ʁ)/

desprestigiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to discredit, to smear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does desprestigiar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to discredit, to smear.

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of desprestigiar

  • desprestigio first-person present singular
  • desprestigiei first-person preterite singular
  • desprestigiado participle past
  • desprestigiares infinitive second-person singular
  • desprestigiarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • desprestigiardes infinitive plural second-person
  • desprestigiarem infinitive plural third-person
  • desprestigiando gerund
  • desprestigiados masculine participle past
  • desprestigiada feminine participle past
  • desprestigiadas feminine participle past
  • desprestigias indicative present second-person
  • desprestigia indicative present singular
  • desprestigiamos first-person indicative plural
  • desprestigiais indicative plural present
  • desprestigiam indicative plural present
  • desprestigiava first-person imperfect indicative
  • desprestigiavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce desprestigiar?

  • Brazil /d͡ʒis.pɾis.t͡ʃi.ʒiˈa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [d͡ʒis.pɾis.t͡ʃi.ʒiˈa(h)]
  • Brazil /d͡ʒis.pɾis.t͡ʃiˈʒja(ʁ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is desprestigiar in Portuguese?

desprestigiar appears about once in every 39 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).