tachar

Borrowed from French tacher (“to stain”).

• Homophone: taxar
• Hyphenation: ta‧char

tachar (first-person singular present tacho, first-person singular preterite tachei, past participle tachado) (transitive)

1. to qualify, to label, to brand (to ascribe a negative quality to)

   Synonyms: qualificar, timbrar

2. to criticise (to find fault in)

   Synonym: criticar

• “tachar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “tachar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Compare Portuguese tachar. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /taˈt͡ʃaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ta‧char

tachar (first-person singular present tacho, first-person singular preterite taché, past participle tachado) (transitive)

1. to cross out

   Synonym: borrar

2. to omit, leave out
3. to qualify, to label, to brand (to ascribe a negative quality to)
   • 2020 August 27, “El Ayuntamiento de Barcelona reprueba el papel del Gobierno en la marcha de Juan Carlos I”, in El País‎:

     Esta vez el concejal y Eva Parera, la segunda edil de la formación, se han ausentado de un pleno, que desde que lo pidieron los republicanos y neoconvergentes han tachado de “ilegal”.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “tachar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10