embranquecer

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From em- +‎ branco (“white”) +‎ -ecer. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: em‧bran‧que‧cer === Verb === embranquecer (first-person singular present embranqueço, first-person singular preterite embranqueci, past participle embranquecido) (transitive) to whiten (to make white or whiter) Synonym: branquear (intransitive) to whiten (to become white or whiter) Synonym: encanecer ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “embranquecer”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “embranquecer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026