escravizar
Portuguese, verb/is.kɾa.viˈza(ʁ)/
escravizar is spelled E-S-C-R-A-V-I-Z-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 40,952nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escravizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to enslave (to turn someone into a slave)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar escravo”.
What does escravizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to enslave (to turn someone into a slave)
- 2
to enslave; to enthrall (to make subservient)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar escravo 2. subjugar 3. sujeitar
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 escravizar
- escravizo first-person present singular
- escravizei first-person preterite singular
- escravizado participle past
- escravizares infinitive second-person singular
- escravizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- escravizardes infinitive plural second-person
- escravizarem infinitive plural third-person
- escravizando gerund
- escravizados masculine participle past
- escravizada feminine participle past
- escravizadas feminine participle past
- escravizas indicative present second-person
- escraviza indicative present singular
- escravizamos first-person indicative plural
- escravizais indicative plural present
- escravizam indicative plural present
- escravizava first-person imperfect indicative
- escravizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escravizar?
- Brazil /is.kɾa.viˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.kɾa.viˈza(h)]
- Brazil /es.kɾa.viˈza(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 escravizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escravizar in Portuguese?
escravizar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).