endurecer
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.du.ɾeˈse(ʁ)/
endurecer is spelled E-N-D-U-R-E-C-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,895th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Endurecer is a Portuguese verb meaning “to harden (become hard, make harder)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar duro; enrijecer, severizar”.
What does endurecer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to harden (become hard, make harder)
- 2
to strengthen
- 3
to harden (become resistant or less sensitive)
- 4
to harden (get an erection)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar duro; enrijecer, severizar 2. tornar insensível 3. fortalecer
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 endurecer
- endureço first-person present singular
- endureci first-person preterite singular
- endurecido participle past
- c-ç alternation
- endureceres infinitive second-person singular
- endurecermos first-person infinitive plural
- endurecerdes infinitive plural second-person
- endurecerem infinitive plural third-person
- endurecendo gerund
- endurecidos masculine participle past
- endurecida feminine participle past
- endurecidas feminine participle past
- endureces indicative present second-person
- endurece indicative present singular
- endurecemos first-person indicative plural
- endureceis indicative plural present
- endurecem indicative plural present
- endurecia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce endurecer?
- Brazil /ẽ.du.ɾeˈse(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.du.ɾeˈse(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.du.ɾeˈse(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to endurecer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is endurecer in Portuguese?
endurecer appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).