empalidecer

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From em- +‎ pálido +‎ -ecer. Compare Spanish empalidecer. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: em‧pa‧li‧de‧cer === Verb === empalidecer (first-person singular present empalideço, first-person singular preterite empalideci, past participle empalidecido) (intransitive) to pale (to become pale) ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “empalidecer”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “empalidecer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === From em- +‎ pálido (“pale”) +‎ -ecer. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /empalideˈθeɾ/ [ẽm.pa.li.ð̞eˈθeɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain) IPA(key): /empalideˈseɾ/ [ẽm.pa.li.ð̞eˈseɾ] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -eɾ Syllabification: em‧pa‧li‧de‧cer === Verb === empalidecer (first-person singular present empalidezco, first-person singular preterite empalidecí, past participle empalidecido) to become pale Synonym: palidecer ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “empalidecer”, 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