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