Dictionary
matar
Meaning
- to kill (to cause to die)
- to kill; to eradicate; to destroy
- (informal) to kill (to cause extreme pain, distress or exhaustion in)
- to kill (to write a story that conveys the death of)
- to satisfy, to satiate, to quench (to fulfil an emotional or physiological need)
- to break one's back (to make a great effort)
- (colloquial) to spend [a period of time] doing unimportant things
- (Brazil,slang) to skip (not to be present in a class)
- (informal) to solve (to find the solution to a mystery)
- (Brazil,slang) to consume something entirely (especially an alcoholic drink); to knock down
- to stop a moving ball
- 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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