obcecar
Portuguese, verb/ob.seˈka(ʁ)/
obcecar is spelled O-B-C-E-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written Portuguese, the 215,563rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obcecar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to blind (from facts, from the truth)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cegar”.
What does obcecar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to blind (from facts, from the truth)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cegar 2. ofuscar 3. obscurecer
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 obcecar
- obceco first-person present singular
- obcequei first-person preterite singular
- obcecado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- obcecares infinitive second-person singular
- obcecarmos first-person infinitive plural
- obcecardes infinitive plural second-person
- obcecarem infinitive plural third-person
- obcecando gerund
- obcecados masculine participle past
- obcecada feminine participle past
- obcecadas feminine participle past
- obcecas indicative present second-person
- obceca indicative present singular
- obcecamos first-person indicative plural
- obcecais indicative plural present
- obcecam indicative plural present
- obcecava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce obcecar?
- Brazil /ob.seˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ob.seˈka(h)]
- Portugal /ɔb.sɨ.ˈkaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is obcecar in Portuguese?
obcecar appears about once in every 60 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).