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prejudicar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • impair verb To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
  • offend verb To hurt someone's feelings or upset them, often unintentionally.
  • prejudice noun An unfair opinion or attitude formed in advance, without real knowledge or evidence.
  • undermine verb To weaken support or confidence gradually, often secretly.

Senses

prejudicar is used for these senses in English:

  • impair (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
  • offend (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
  • undermine (figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage. [from 15th c.]

impair — full definition

  1. verb To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
  2. verb To grow worse; to deteriorate.

offend — full definition

  1. verb To hurt someone's feelings or upset them, often unintentionally.
  2. verb To break a law or moral rule.

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