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Portuguese
Etymology
From a- + doce + -ar (compare French adoucir, Spanish adulzar).
Pronunciation
Verb
adoçar (first-person singular present adoço, first-person singular preterite adocei, past participle adoçado)
- (transitive) to sweeten
- (transitive) to blunt
- (transitive, figuratively) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
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Conjugation
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
- “adoçar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “adoçar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “adoçar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “adoçar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “adoçar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “adoçar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024