enforcar
Meaning
- (transitive) to suspend (someone) by a rope or band tied around the neck, causing death by asphyxiation
- (transitive) to put someone to death on the gallows
- (transitive,vulgar) to sell something for a low price
- (pronominal) to kill yourself by hanging
- (figuratively,pronominal) to get in bad shape
- (figuratively,pronominal) to suffer great damage
- (figuratively,pronominal) to sacrifice yourself
- (colloquial,pronominal) to get married
- (Brazil,intransitive,transitive) to not work on a business day between holidays or between a holiday and a weekend
Frequency
Hyphenated as
en‧for‧car
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ẽ.foʁˈka(ʁ)/
Etymology
From en- + forca + -ar.
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