retesar
Portuguese, verb/ʁe.teˈza(ʁ)/
retesar is spelled R-E-T-E-S-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese, the 236,506th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retesar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to strain; to stretch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr rígido, tenso, teso”.
What does retesar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to strain; to stretch
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr rígido, tenso, teso
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 retesar
- reteso first-person present singular
- retesei first-person preterite singular
- retesado participle past
- retesares infinitive second-person singular
- retesarmos first-person infinitive plural
- retesardes infinitive plural second-person
- retesarem infinitive plural third-person
- retesando gerund
- retesados masculine participle past
- retesada feminine participle past
- retesadas feminine participle past
- retesas indicative present second-person
- retesa indicative present singular
- retesamos first-person indicative plural
- retesais indicative plural present
- retesam indicative plural present
- retesava first-person imperfect indicative
- retesavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retesar?
- Brazil /ʁe.teˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [he.teˈza(h)]
- /ʁe.teˈza(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is retesar in Portuguese?
retesar appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).