matar

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Meaning

to kill, slay
to put out, extinguish (a flame or light)
to butcher
to injure, damage
to fatigue, exhaust, tire out
to dull (render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish)
to round off
to ruin
(colloquial) to kill (to annoy)
(colloquial) to kill (to get mad at)
(colloquial) to kill (to amaze, exceed, stun)
(colloquial) to beat (to be better than)
to postmark
(reflexive) to kill oneself, to commit suicide
(reflexive) to be killed, to meet one’s death
(reflexive) to become galled, to become chafed, to get sores (said of horses)
(reflexive) to wear oneself out

kill

slaughter

slay

murder

butcher

assassinate

liquidate

shoot

eliminate

mortify

put out

strangle

knock off

destroy

behead

waste

abase

appease

assuage

beat

breakdown

calm

chop

cover

cut off

defeat

demolish

depress

dig up

discourage

dishearten

down

drop

enervate

enfeeble

excavate

exhaust

go through

grub

hack

humiliate

overcome

overthrow

pass through

pull down

quiet

quiten

shoot dead

soothe

still

surmount

tackle

take down

tranquilize

use up

vanquish

weaken

win over

adjust

amend

correct

redress

set aright

straighten

lay

tone down

extinguish

throttle

choke

finish

stick

splash

cut down

cut the throat of

cut up

operate

skin an animal

break the neck

turn off

execute

catch

overtrump

stamp out

put down

kill slay

finish off

put to death

exterminate

kill off

without intention

Frequency

Hyphenated as

ma‧tar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/maˈtaɾ/

Several possibilities: * From Latin mactāre (through a Vulgar Latin *mattāre). Thus, a potential cognate with English mactate. * From Vulgar Latin *mattāre, from Late Latin mattus (“drunk, intoxicated”), related to madidus. Compare Portuguese and Catalan matar, archaic Italian mattare. * From Spanish mazar, in turn from maza (“mace, club”); compare Italian ammazzare (“to kill”). * From Arabic مَاتَ (māta, “to die”), compare Persian مات (mât), the probable source of the second part of English checkmate.