afastar.
to repel; to push away (cause to move away)
Meaning & usage
to repel; to push away (cause to move away)
Este spray não conseguiu afastar os mosquitos.
to drive apart (cause to stop being close, intimate)
A disputa pela herança afastou os irmãos.
to step back; to move away
Afaste-se do fogo!
Afasta-te de mim!
to dissociate; to distance oneself (stop associating (with))
Resolvi me afastar dos meus falsos amigos.
to suspend (temporarily ban someone from their job)
CNJ afasta desembargador que concedeu prisão domiciliar a suspeito de liderar facção criminosa na BA
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese afastar, of obscure origin; maybe from Proto-Germanic *fastuz (“fixed, firm”), through Suevic [Term?] or Gothic.
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