quebrar a cabeça
Portuguese, verb
quebrar a cabeça is spelled Q-U-E-B-R-A-R-A-C-A-B-E-Ç-A (14 letters). Quebrar a cabeça is a Portuguese verb meaning “to rack one's brain (struggle to think of something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does quebrar a cabeça mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rack one's brain (struggle to think of something)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
phrase: 1. pensar muito
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 quebrar a cabeça
- quebro a cabeça first-person present singular
- quebrei a cabeça first-person preterite singular
- quebrado a cabeça participle past
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).