embaçar

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === embaciar === Etymology === From em- +‎ baço (“lustreless”) +‎ -ar. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: em‧ba‧çar === Verb === embaçar (first-person singular present embaço, first-person singular preterite embacei, past participle embaçado) (transitive) to reduce the luster or the transparency [of something] (reflexive) to lose luster or transparency (by extension) to make [an image, a picture] indistinct or hazy, to blur (figurative) to make more confusing, to obscure, to obfuscate (figurative, by extension) to deceive (figurative) to make less prestigious, to make less eminent, to outshine ==== Conjugation ==== === References === HOUAISS, A. and DE SALLES VILLAR, M. Minidicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa. Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, 2008. Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa. São Paulo: Encyclopaedia Britannica do Brasil Publicações Ltda., 1976. === Further reading === “embaçar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “embaçar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026