enxotar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.ʃoˈta(ʁ)/
enxotar is spelled E-N-X-O-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 131,183rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enxotar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to shoo (to induce someone to leave)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr em debandada”.
What does enxotar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shoo (to induce someone to leave)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr em debandada 2. fazer fugir 3. espantar; afugentar; repelir; expulsar
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 enxotar
- enxoto first-person present singular
- enxotei first-person preterite singular
- enxotado participle past
- enxotares infinitive second-person singular
- enxotarmos first-person infinitive plural
- enxotardes infinitive plural second-person
- enxotarem infinitive plural third-person
- enxotando gerund
- enxotados masculine participle past
- enxotada feminine participle past
- enxotadas feminine participle past
- enxotas indicative present second-person
- enxota indicative present singular
- enxotamos first-person indicative plural
- enxotais indicative plural present
- enxotam indicative plural present
- enxotava first-person imperfect indicative
- enxotavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enxotar?
- Brazil /ẽ.ʃoˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.ʃoˈta(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.ʃoˈta(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 enxotar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enxotar in Portuguese?
enxotar appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).