matar.
to kill (to cause to die)
Meaning & usage
to kill (to cause to die)
Mataram-no a tiros!
A geada matará a plantação.
to kill; to eradicate; to destroy
Matou-lhe as esperanças
to kill (to cause extreme pain, distress or exhaustion in)
Minhas pernas estão me matando
Essas palavras matam!
to kill (to write a story that conveys the death of)
Hobbes matara o positivismo acerca da revolução.
to satisfy, to satiate, to quench (to fulfil an emotional or physiological need)
Antes de matar meu desejo de caminhar, preciso matar minha sede.
to commit suicide
Ela matou-se com a faca.
to break one's back (to make a great effort)
O homem se matava para sustentar a família.
to spend [a period of time] doing unimportant things
A escola ficou fechada hoje; tive o dia inteiro para matar.
to skip (not to be present in a class)
Os alunos mataram a aula de geografia.
to solve (to find the solution to a mystery)
Finalmente matei a charada.
to consume something entirely (especially an alcoholic drink); to knock down
Matamos uns cascos para relaxar.
to stop a moving ball
Passei de longe para o atacante, que matou a bola no peito.
to pocket (to cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table)
Ela sempre mata duas ou três bolas na primeira tacada.
Where this word comes from
From Old Galician-Portuguese matar, probably from Latin mactāre (through Vulgar Latin *mattāre). The development of -ct- would be irregular, however. Hence possibly derived from or influenced by Late Latin mattus (“drunk, intoxicated”), related to madidus. Another possibility is an influence by Arabic مَاتَ (māta, “to die”). The short past participle is derived from Latin morīre, an unrelated verb that means "to die."
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