reforçar

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

reforçar (first-person singular present reforço, first-person singular preterite reforcí, past participle reforçat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to strengthen, tighten
2. to reinforce

• reforç
• reforçador
• reforçament

• reenforçar, reinforçar (nonstandard)

From re- +‎ forçar.

• Hyphenation: re‧for‧çar

reforçar (first-person singular present reforço, first-person singular preterite reforcei, past participle reforçado)

1. to reinforce
   • 1614, Fernam Mendez Pinto, chapter CLIIII, in Peregrinaçam [Peregrination], 1st edition, Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 190v:

     […] ſaltou em terra cõ obra de dez ou doze mil homẽs, […] & reforçando com muyta preſteza as companhias dos q̃ pelejauão, a briga ſe tornou a trauar de nouo com tanto impeto & esforço de ambas as partes, que parecia q̃ então ſe começaua.

     […] he disembarked with around ten or twelve thousand men, […] and, readily reinforcing the battling forces, the conflict started being fought again, with so much vigor and effort from both parties, that it was as if it was only starting.

2. to strengthen
3. to intensify

• “reforçar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “reforçar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026