brecar

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From breque +‎ -ar. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: bre‧car === Verb === brecar (first-person singular present breco, first-person singular preterite brequei, past participle brecado) (Brazil, transitive) to brake (to operate the brakes of a vehicle) Synonyms: frear, travar (Brazil, intransitive) to brake (to be slowed down) (Brazil, figurative, transitive) to stunt (to check or hinder the growth or development of) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== breque === Further reading === “brecar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “brecar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026