emudecer

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From e- +‎ mudo (“mute”) +‎ -ecer. Compare Spanish enmudecer. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: e‧mu‧de‧cer === Verb === emudecer (first-person singular present emudeço, first-person singular preterite emudeci, past participle emudecido) (transitive) to mute, to silence, to make quiet ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “emudecer”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “emudecer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026