emburrecer
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.bu.ʁeˈse(ʁ)/
emburrecer is spelled E-M-B-U-R-R-E-C-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese, the 189,447th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emburrecer is a Portuguese verb meaning “to get or make dumb, less intelligent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar(-se) burro, ignorante”.
What does emburrecer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to get or make dumb, less intelligent
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar(-se) burro, ignorante
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 emburrecer
- emburreço first-person present singular
- emburreci first-person preterite singular
- emburrecido participle past
- c-ç alternation
- emburreceres infinitive second-person singular
- emburrecermos first-person infinitive plural
- emburrecerdes infinitive plural second-person
- emburrecerem infinitive plural third-person
- emburrecendo gerund
- emburrecidos masculine participle past
- emburrecida feminine participle past
- emburrecidas feminine participle past
- emburreces indicative present second-person
- emburrece indicative present singular
- emburrecemos first-person indicative plural
- emburreceis indicative plural present
- emburrecem indicative plural present
- emburrecia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emburrecer?
- Brazil /ẽ.bu.ʁeˈse(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.bu.heˈse(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.bu.ʁeˈse(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is emburrecer in Portuguese?
emburrecer appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).