Portuguese–English dictionary

empunhar

To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.

empurrão

A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.

empurrar

(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.

emu

A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae. [from 18th c.]

emudecer

(transitive) To silence, to make quiet.

emulador

Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative.

emuladora

A person or thing that emulates.

emulsão

A stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible.

ena pá!

(somewhat, dated) A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.

ena!

(somewhat, dated) A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.

enaltecer

(transitive) To praise; to make high.

enamorado

(dated) Affected with love; in love; enamored.

encabeçar

To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.

encaçapar

(billiards, snooker, pool) To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.

encadear

(transitive) To fasten something with a chain.

encadernação

The art, craft or process of binding books.

encadernar

(transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.

encaixar

(transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.

encaixar mal

(transitive, intransitive) To fit badly.

encaixotar

(transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.

encalecer

(intransitive) To form such hardened tissue.

encalhada

(sometimes, derogatory) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.

encalhar

(transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.

encaminhamento

The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.

encaminhar

(transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.

encaminhar-se

(intransitive) To move in a specified direction.

encanador

One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.

encanamento

The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps, and other fixtures of a water, gas, or sewage system in a house or other building.

encandear

(transitive) To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness.

encantado

Very happy.

encantador

having to power to allure

encantadoramente

In an alluring manner.

encantamento

Enchanting.

encantar

(transitive) To charm, delight or captivate.

encanto

Enchanting.

encapar

(transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.

encapuzado

Wearing a hood.

encaracolado

a person or animal with curly hair.

encaracolar

(transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.

encarar

(transitive) To meet defiantly; to confront.

encarceramento

(chiefly, US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.

encarcerar

(transitive, also, figuratively) To confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille (noun sense 2.1) or prison; to imprison.

encardido

Dirty, unwashed, unclean.

encardimento

Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.

encargo

The amount of money levied for a service.

encarnado

The blood-red colour of raw flesh; crimson.

encarniçada

Thirsty for blood: inexorably violent or eager for bloodshed; murderous.

encarniçado

Hateful or hostile.

encarquilhado

Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

encarregado

Having the responsibility of leading or overseeing.

encarregar

To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.

encarte

A promotional or instructive leaflet inserted into a magazine, newspaper, tape or disk package, etc.

encefalite

(pathology) Inflammation of the brain.

encéfalo

(neuroanatomy, especially, embryologic neuroanatomy) The area of central nervous system that includes all higher nervous centers, enclosed within the skull and continuous with the spinal cord; synonym of brain.

Encélado

(astronomy) A moon of Saturn.

encenação

(uncountable, drama) The occupation of an actor.

encenado

Intended for the stage as in a theater.

encenar

(transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.

encerado

(countable) A tarp, a heavy, waterproof sheet of material, often cloth, used as a cover or blanket.

enceramento

(countable) A cosmetic procedure in which hair is removed from the body by the application and removal of wax.

encerar

(transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.

encerrado

(Of a product) Permanently no longer available for sale

encerramento

An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.

encerramento (da transmissão)

(radio, television) The point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission and goes off the air for a predetermined period, as used to happen overnight.

encerrar

(intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.

encharcado

Completely wet; sodden

encharcar

To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also (archaic) , to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep.

encharcar-se

(intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.

enchente

An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.

encher

To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.

encher de água

(transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.

encher o saco

(intransitive, idiom) To engage in frivolous behaviour; to monkey around.

enchimento

Anything that is used to fill something.

enchova

Any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in sixteen genera, those of the genus Engraulis being widely sold as food.

enciclopédia

A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.

enclausurar

(transitive) To enclose in a pen.

enclave

A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.

enclavinhar

To twist or twine around something (or one another).

encoberta

Performed or happening in secret.

encoberto

Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.

encobrir

(idiomatic) To conceal or disguise.

encoleirar

To fasten or secure with a leash.

encolerizar

(transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.

encolher

(transitive) To cause to become smaller.

encolher os ombros

(ambitransitive) To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc.

encolher-se

(intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.

encolhido

Reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shrivelled.

encomenda

(countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.

encomendar

(transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.

encomiar

(transitive) To praise or acclaim.

encômio

Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.

encompridar

(transitive) To make longer, to extend the length of.

encontrar

(intransitive) To come near to; to pass; to visit.

encontro

A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.

encontro consonantal

(phonetics) A pronounceable group of consonants that occur together: a consonant cluster.

encontro inesperado

A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.

encorajamento

The act of encouraging

encorajar

To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.

encordoar

(transitive) To put strings on (something).

encortinar

(transitive) To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.

encosta

The side of a hill.

encostar

(idiomatic, intransitive, of a train or bus) To approach a station; to arrive at a station.

encosto

The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.

encosto (para as costas)

The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

encouraçado

A ship, vessel, or vehicle with a covering of iron, steel, or (loosely) any other tough metal.

encrenca

(idiomatic) An irritating, troublesome or harmful object, situation or individual.

encrenqueiro

One who causes trouble, especially one who does so deliberately.

encriptação

(cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.

encriptar

(cryptography) To encode.

encruzilhada

An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.

encurralar

(transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.

encurtado

(obsolete, as a participial adjective) Abbreviated, abridged, shortened. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 17th century]

encurtamento

(countable, linguistics) A short form (of a longer word) created by removing syllables, often terminal ones.

encurtar

(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

endemia

A disease affecting a number of people simultaneously, so as to show a distinct connection with certain localities.

endémico

(especially of diseases) Prevalent in a particular area or region, persistent within a population.

endereçamento

A process of putting a person's name and address on an item of mail

endereçar

(transitive) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to.

endereço

Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, FTP site, audio stream or other Internet resource.

endereço eletrónico

A unique identifier of the form user name@domain name specifying a virtual location to which e-mail can be sent.

endereço IP

(Internet) A number assigned to each computer's or other device's network interface, which are active on a network. supporting the Internet Protocol, in order to distinguish each network interface, and hence each networked device) from every other network interface anywhere on the network.

endireitar

(transitive) To cause to become straight.

endireitar-se

(transitive) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.

endividado

Obligated, especially financially.

endocruzamento

(biology) Breeding between members of a relatively small population, especially one in which most members are related.

endogâmico

(often, pejorative) Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.

endoutrinamento

The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated.

endoutrinar

To teach (a person) with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology; to brainwash.

endovenoso

Inside the veins.

endro

Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.

endurecido

Having been accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant through exposure or experience; inured.

ene

The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

enegrecer

(intransitive, ergative) To become black.

enema

To administer an enema.

energético

(science) Possessing or pertaining to energy. [from 19th c.]

energia cinética

(physics) The energy possessed by an object because of its motion, equal (nonrelativistically) to one half the mass of the body times the square of its speed.

energia potencial

The energy possessed by an object because of its position (in a gravitational or electric field), or its condition (as a stretched or compressed spring, as a chemical reactant, or by having rest mass).

energicamente

In an energetic manner; with great energy.

enérgico

(science) Possessing or pertaining to energy. [from 19th c.]

energizar

(transitive) To supply with energy, especially electricity; to turn on power to (something).

enevoado

Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.

enevoar

(intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.

enfado

(countable) An instance or period of being bored; a bored state.

enfadonho

Causing boredom or tiredness; making one feel tired and impatient.

enfardar

(transitive) To wrap into a bale.

enfarinhar

(transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

enfarte

(pathology) An area of dead tissue caused by a loss of blood supply; a localized necrosis.

ênfase

(uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).

enfaticamente

In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.

enfatizar

(transitive) To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).