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matar

Meaning

  1. to kill (to cause to die)
  2. to kill; to eradicate; to destroy
  3. (informal) to kill (to cause extreme pain, distress or exhaustion in)
  4. to kill (to write a story that conveys the death of)
  5. to satisfy, to satiate, to quench (to fulfil an emotional or physiological need)
  6. to break one's back (to make a great effort)
  7. (colloquial) to spend [a period of time] doing unimportant things
  8. (Brazil,slang) to skip (not to be present in a class)
  9. (informal) to solve (to find the solution to a mystery)
  10. (Brazil,slang) to consume something entirely (especially an alcoholic drink); to knock down
  11. to stop a moving ball
  12. to pocket (to cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table)

Hyphenated as
ma‧tar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/maˈta(ʁ)/
Inherited from Latin
mactō
Inherited from Latin
moriō

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