embrutecer

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From em- +‎ bruto +‎ -ecer. Compare Spanish embrutecer. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: em‧bru‧te‧cer === Verb === embrutecer (first-person singular present embruteço, first-person singular preterite embruteci, past participle embrutecido) (transitive) to stultify ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “embrutecer”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “embrutecer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === From en- + bruto + -ecer. Compare Portuguese embrutecer and Spanish brutalizar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /embɾuteˈθeɾ/ [ẽm.bɾu.t̪eˈθeɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain) IPA(key): /embɾuteˈseɾ/ [ẽm.bɾu.t̪eˈseɾ] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -eɾ Syllabification: em‧bru‧te‧cer === Verb === embrutecer (first-person singular present embrutezco, first-person singular preterite embrutecí, past participle embrutecido) (transitive) to stultify ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “embrutecer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025