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Portuguese
Etymology
From abafar (“to smother”) + -dor (“-er”).
Pronunciation
Noun
abafador m (plural abafadores, feminine abafadora, feminine plural abafadoras)
- any person or device which snuffs or prevents the spread of fire
- March 2001, Consuelo Dieguez, Marcelo Carneiro, Sepultados no fundo do mar in Veja issue 1693, Abril, page 52:
Em 12 de março, três dias antes da explosão da P-36, um boletim relata problema no abafador de chamas, peça que impede que o gás retorne para a tubulação: […]- In March 12, three days before the explosion of P-36, a bulletin relates problems with the flame snuffer, a piece which prevents the gas from returning to the tubes:
- candle snuffer (tool for extinguishing candles, consisting of a cup on a handle)
- fire flapper (tool for extinguishing wildfires, consisting of a piece of rubber on a pole)
- 2004, Nilton César Fiedler, Thiago Oliveira Rodriges, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Combate a incêndios florestais no Distrito Federal in Floresta issues 34–35, Centro de Pesquisas Florestais, page 92:
Vinte e seis vírgula sete porcento dos brigadistas consideram como a parte mais satisfatória do trabalho de brigadista o combate direto com abafador […]- Twenty six point seven percent of the fire-fighters consider direct fire-fighting with a fire flapper the most satisfactory part of their job.
2005, Suzi Huff Theodoro, Mediação de Conflitos Socioambientais, Editora Garamond Ltda, page 112:[…] , a tal ponto que o agricultor “tratasse um abafador com a mesma importância que trata uma enxada”.- , up to the point where the farmer “would treat a fire flapper with the same regard as he treats a hoe”.
2012, Sônia Bridi, Diário do clima, Globo Livros, page 223:Não há uma tecnologia de combate ao fogo, mas uma técnica: quem carrega o galão de água vai bombeando e borrifando para diminuir um pouco a temperatura para o que vem atrás com o abafador — esse, sim, com o impacto, apaga o fogo.- There isn’t a technology for fire-fighting, but there is a technique: the person who carries a water container pumps and sprays in order to lower the temperature a little for the person who comes behind with the fire flapper — this one, indeed, with the impact, puts out the fire.
- cosy (covering put on an item to keep it warm)
1972, Pedro Nava, Memórias: Baú de ossos, Olympio, page 236:Ele insistia em que não era shako nem nada e sim abafador de bules e de leiteiras.- He insisted that it was not a shako or anything, but indeed a cosy for teapots and milk jugs.
- anything that muffles sound
2008, Diogo de Souza, Fuga de Rigel, Isis, page 59:Mas a mente de Lúcio, como a de todas pessoas, exceto as mais íntimas, aparecia a ele como uma voz por trás de um abafador; era perceptível, mas indefinível.- But Lucio’s mind, as those of every person, except the most intimate, appeared to him as a voice through a muffler; it was perceptible, but indefinite.
- earmuff (sound-deadening cups worn over the ears)
- damper (device in keyboard instruments which deadens the vibrations of the strings)
- (Portuguese folklore) a person whose job is to smother the moribund on their deathbed
1994, Franklin Cunha, Deusas, bruxas e parteiras, Solivros, page 84:E para ajudá-lo chamavam o "ajudador" ou "abafador" que sentado no tórax do moribundo e com um crucifixo a pressionar sua garganta dizia: — Vai meu irmão, Nosso Senhor está te chamando!- And to help him they would call the "helper" or "smotherer" who, sitting on the moribund's thorax with a crucifix pressing his throat, would say: — Go my brother, Our Lord is calling you!
2008, Flávio M. Silva, Espécies de espaço: territorialidades, literatura, mídia, Editora UFMG, page 290:[…] , que conta o inesperado embate de um abafador (“o que abreviava a vida de moribundos, depois de confessados e comungados, abafando-os com almofadas”)5 com Abel, que lhe corta o ímpeto de fazer a morte sem hesitação, e Isaac, o sobrevivente das mãos de um abafador, que lhe põe termo aos dias.- , which tells of the unexpected shock of a smotherer (“he who abbreviates the lives of the moribund, after they have confessed and communicated, smothering them with cushions”)5 with Abel, who cuts short his impetus for causing death without hesitation, and Isaac, who survived an encounter with a smotherer, who puts an end to his days.
2008, Miguel Torga, Novos contos da montanha, Leya, page 16:Quantas vezes o abafador tinha escutado aquilo, gritos de desespero, apelos sôfregos e angustiados, sem se deter na sua missão sagrada!- How many times the smotherer had heard that, screams of despair, anguished and anxious appeals, without detaining himself in his sacred mission!
- (Brazil, slang) thief; robber
1959, Ferrucio Fabbri, A estação, Livraria São José, page 44:Abafador de carteira ali é bicho de pé em chiqueiro.- A wallet robber there is like a chigger in a pigsty.
- Synonyms: assaltante, gatuno, ladrão
- the biggest marble used in a marble game
- 1998, António Cabral, Jogos populares infantis, Editorial Notícias, page 288:
Cada participante, após o primeiro lançamento, atira seu abafador do ponto onde este ficou na jogada anterior.- Each participant, after the first shot, shoots his abafador from the point where it stopped in the previous shot.