secar
Portuguese, verb/seˈka(ʁ)/
secar is spelled S-E-C-A-R (5 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,590th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Secar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to dry (to become dry)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer evaporar a umidade de”.
What does secar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dry (to become dry)
- 2
to dry (to make dry)
- 3
to dry up (to deprive someone of something vital)
- 4
to wither (to shrivel, droop or dry up)
- 5
slangto hope for someone's defeat or failure, especially in a competitive game
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer evaporar a umidade de 2. enxugar 3. fazer cessar 4. maçar
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 secar
- seco first-person present singular
- sequei first-person preterite singular
- secado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- secares infinitive second-person singular
- secarmos first-person infinitive plural
- secardes infinitive plural second-person
- secarem infinitive plural third-person
- secando gerund
- secados masculine participle past
- secada feminine participle past
- secadas feminine participle past
- secas indicative present second-person
- seca indicative present singular
- secamos first-person indicative plural
- secais indicative plural present
- secam indicative plural present
- secava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce secar?
- Brazil /seˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [seˈka(h)]
- /seˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to secar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is secar in Portuguese?
secar appears 8.1 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).