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encampar

Portuguese, verb/ẽ.kɐ̃ˈpa(ʁ)/

encampar is spelled E-N-C-A-M-P-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 46 million words in written Portuguese, the 191,310th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encampar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to annul, to cancel, to revoke” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “extinguir o contrato de concessão dos serviços públicos”.

What does encampar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to annul, to cancel, to revoke

  2. 2

    to expropriate

  3. 3

    to adopt (a cause, etc.)

  4. 4

    to abandon (a cause, etc.)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. extinguir o contrato de concessão dos serviços públicos

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 encampar

  • encampo first-person present singular
  • encampei first-person preterite singular
  • encampado participle past
  • encampares infinitive second-person singular
  • encamparmos first-person infinitive plural
  • encampardes infinitive plural second-person
  • encamparem infinitive plural third-person
  • encampando gerund
  • encampados masculine participle past
  • encampada feminine participle past
  • encampadas feminine participle past
  • encampas indicative present second-person
  • encampa indicative present singular
  • encampamos first-person indicative plural
  • encampais indicative plural present
  • encampam indicative plural present
  • encampava first-person imperfect indicative
  • encampavas imperfect indicative second-person

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

How do you pronounce encampar?

  • Brazil /ẽ.kɐ̃ˈpa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [ẽ.kɐ̃ˈpa(h)]
  • Brazil /ĩ.kɐ̃ˈpa(ʁ)/

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

How common is encampar in Portuguese?

encampar appears about once in every 46 million words in written Portuguese.

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

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