enforcar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to suspend (someone) by a rope or band tied around the neck, causing death by asphyxiation
  2. (transitive) to put someone to death on the gallows
  3. (transitive, vulgar) to sell something for a low price
  4. (pronominal) to kill yourself by hanging
  5. (figuratively, pronominal) to get in bad shape
  6. (figuratively, pronominal) to suffer great damage
  7. (figuratively, pronominal) to sacrifice yourself
  8. (colloquial, pronominal) to get married
  9. (Brazil, intransitive, transitive) to not work on a business day between holidays or between a holiday and a weekend

Concepts

execute by hanging

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ẽ.foʁˈka(ʁ)/
Etymology

From en- + forca + -ar.

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