abafar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to suffocate
  2. (transitive) to interrupt
  3. (informal,transitive) to prevent something from being made public or known; to suppress; to smother
  4. (Brazil,intransitive,slang) to slay; to hit one out of the ballpark

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Hyphenated as
a‧ba‧far
Pronounced as (IPA)
/a.baˈfa(ʁ)/
Etymology

From a- + bafo + -ar.

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