estrangular
Portuguese, verb/is.tɾɐ̃.ɡuˈla(ʁ)/
estrangular is spelled E-S-T-R-A-N-G-U-L-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 50,402nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Estrangular is a Portuguese verb meaning “to strangle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “matar por sufocação”.
What does estrangular mean in English?
verb
- 1
to strangle
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. matar por sufocação
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 estrangular
- estrangulo first-person present singular
- estrangulei first-person preterite singular
- estrangulado participle past
- estrangulares infinitive second-person singular
- estrangularmos first-person infinitive plural
- estrangulardes infinitive plural second-person
- estrangularem infinitive plural third-person
- estrangulando gerund
- estrangulados masculine participle past
- estrangulada feminine participle past
- estranguladas feminine participle past
- estrangulas indicative present second-person
- estrangula indicative present singular
- estrangulamos first-person indicative plural
- estrangulais indicative plural present
- estrangulam indicative plural present
- estrangulava first-person imperfect indicative
- estrangulavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce estrangular?
- Brazil /is.tɾɐ̃.ɡuˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.tɾɐ̃.ɡuˈla(h)]
- Brazil /es.tɾɐ̃.ɡuˈla(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 estrangular
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is estrangular in Portuguese?
estrangular appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).