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tiranizar

Portuguese, verb/t͡ʃi.ɾa.niˈza(ʁ)/

tiranizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to tyrannise; to oppress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tratar tiranicamente”.

What does tiranizar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to tyrannise; to oppress

  2. 2

    to tyrannise (rule as a tyrant)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. tratar tiranicamente 2. oprimir 3. escravizar

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 tiranizar

  • tiranizo first-person present singular
  • tiranizei first-person preterite singular
  • tiranizado participle past
  • tiranizares infinitive second-person singular
  • tiranizarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • tiranizardes infinitive plural second-person
  • tiranizarem infinitive plural third-person
  • tiranizando gerund
  • tiranizados masculine participle past
  • tiranizada feminine participle past
  • tiranizadas feminine participle past
  • tiranizas indicative present second-person
  • tiraniza indicative present singular
  • tiranizamos first-person indicative plural
  • tiranizais indicative plural present
  • tiranizam indicative plural present
  • tiranizava first-person imperfect indicative
  • tiranizavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce tiranizar?

  • Brazil /t͡ʃi.ɾa.niˈza(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [t͡ʃi.ɾa.niˈza(h)]
  • /t͡ʃi.ɾa.niˈza(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 tiranizar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is tiranizar in Portuguese?

tiranizar appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).