encorar

Attested since 1838. From en- +‎ cor, from Old Galician-Portuguese cor (“heart”), from Latin cor. Compare acorar.

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encorar (first-person singular present encoro, first-person singular preterite encorei, past participle encorado)

1. (transitive) to suffocate

   Synonym: acorar

   • 1838, Florencio Pol, Espello de Deputados:

     Que se algun pr aco vexo
     mesmo ó coso na caldeira,
     é nin lle val ó espoldrexo
     nin á fala trampuceira,
     co encoro coma un conexo.

     If any of them I see around here
     I will even cook him in the cauldron
     and neither kicking
     nor mischievous words are going to help them,
     I'll suffocate him as a rabbit

2. (transitive) to dam

   Synonym: represar

• encoro

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “encorar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “encorar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “encorar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “encorar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “encorar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN