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quebrar.

to break (end up or cause to end up in two or more pieces that cannot easily be reassembled)

7 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/keˈbɾa(ʁ)/Brazil[keˈbɾa(h)]Brazil/keˈbɾa(ɾ)/São-Paulo/keˈbɾa(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. to break (end up or cause to end up in two or more pieces that cannot easily be reassembled)

    ambitransitive
  2. to fracture a bone

  3. to break down (stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether)

    intransitive
  4. to break (do that which is forbidden by a rule, promise, etc.)

  5. to break (ruin or be ruined financially)

  6. to break (collapse into surf)

    intransitive
  7. to beat up (give a severe beating to)

    figuratively · transitive
  8. to break (set a new record)

Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese quebrar, itself, through metathesis, from Latin crepāre (“to crack, to creak”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂-.

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