desvirtuar
Portuguese, verb/dez.viʁ.tuˈa(ʁ)/
desvirtuar is spelled D-E-S-V-I-R-T-U-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 94,578th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desvirtuar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to distort; to skew” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer perder a virtude”.
What does desvirtuar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to distort; to skew
- 2
to compromise or weaken (virtues, pledges or values)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer perder a virtude 2. depreciar a virtude 3. desmerecer 4. torcer o sentido
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 desvirtuar
- desvirtuo first-person present singular
- desvirtuei first-person preterite singular
- desvirtuado participle past
- desvirtuares infinitive second-person singular
- desvirtuarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desvirtuardes infinitive plural second-person
- desvirtuarem infinitive plural third-person
- desvirtuando gerund
- desvirtuados masculine participle past
- desvirtuada feminine participle past
- desvirtuadas feminine participle past
- desvirtuas indicative present second-person
- desvirtua indicative present singular
- desvirtuamos first-person indicative plural
- desvirtuais indicative plural present
- desvirtuam indicative plural present
- desvirtuava first-person imperfect indicative
- desvirtuavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desvirtuar?
- Brazil /dez.viʁ.tuˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [dez.vih.tuˈa(h)]
- Brazil /dez.viʁˈtwa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desvirtuar in Portuguese?
desvirtuar appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).