esfacelar
Portuguese, verb/is.fa.seˈla(ʁ)/
esfacelar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to destroy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desmanchar, fazer em pedaços”.
What does esfacelar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to destroy
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. desmanchar, fazer em pedaços 2. destruir, estragar
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 esfacelar
- esfacelo first-person present singular
- esfacelei first-person preterite singular
- esfacelado participle past
- esfacelares infinitive second-person singular
- esfacelarmos first-person infinitive plural
- esfacelardes infinitive plural second-person
- esfacelarem infinitive plural third-person
- esfacelando gerund
- esfacelados masculine participle past
- esfacelada feminine participle past
- esfaceladas feminine participle past
- esfacelas indicative present second-person
- esfacela indicative present singular
- esfacelamos first-person indicative plural
- esfacelais indicative plural present
- esfacelam indicative plural present
- esfacelava first-person imperfect indicative
- esfacelavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esfacelar?
- Brazil /is.fa.seˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.fa.seˈla(h)]
- Brazil /es.fa.seˈla(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is esfacelar in Portuguese?
esfacelar appears about once in every 51 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).