desfazer
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Etymology
Inherited from Early Medieval Latin disfacere. Synchronically des- + fazer.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɾ
Verb
desfazer
Descendants
Further reading
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese desfazer, from Early Medieval Latin desfacere. Synchronically des- + fazer.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: des‧fa‧zer
Verb
desfazer (first-person singular present desfaço, first-person singular preterite desfiz, past participle desfeito)
- (transitive) to undo; to unfasten
- (transitive) to unpack
- (transitive) to destroy
- (transitive) to dissolve
- (intransitive) to depreciate
- (pronominal) to come undone
- to get rid of
- (pronominal) to disappear
- (pronominal) to melt
- (pronominal) to break up (to end a relationship)
- (pronominal) to get rid of; to give away [with de ‘something’]
- Estou me desfazendo de meus livros velhos.
- I'm giving my old books away.
Conjugation
1Brazil only.
Related terms
Further reading
- “desfazer” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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