desmaiar

Meaning

(intransitive) to faint (to lose consciousness)
(figuratively,intransitive) to dishearten
(figuratively,intransitive) to fall asleep suddenly, usually by excessive tiredness
(transitive) to cause a person to faint, often by drugging them and with criminal intentions

Frequency

Hyphenated as

des‧mai‧ar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dez.majˈa(ʁ)/

Etymology

Alteration of esmaiar, from Old French esmaier, from Vulgar Latin *exmagāre (“lose the strength”), from Frankish *magan (“to have strength”). Compare Galician desmaiar, Spanish desmayar and Spanish esmayar