menoscabar

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From Vulgar Latin *minuscapāre. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: me‧nos‧ca‧bar === Verb === menoscabar (first-person singular present menoscabo, first-person singular preterite menoscabei, past participle menoscabado) (transitive) to turn incomplete or imperfect (transitive, figuratively) to discredit, to disbelieve (transitive) to despise, to scorn, to look down on Synonyms: desprezar, menosprezar ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “menoscabar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “menoscabar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === From menos + cabo + -ar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /menoskaˈbaɾ/ [me.nos.kaˈβ̞aɾ] Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: me‧nos‧ca‧bar === Verb === menoscabar (first-person singular present menoscabo, first-person singular preterite menoscabé, past participle menoscabado) to lessen to sully; to mutilate to undermine ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== See also ==== socavar === Further reading === “menoscabar”, 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