Polyglot Dictionary

afugentar

/afuʒẽˈtaɾ/

verb C1

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

V Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

present (eu)
afugento
preterite (eu)
afugentei
past participle
afugentado

Meaning

  1. to scare away

V Category Action Concreteness Concrete Agency Voluntary Duration Durative Transitivity Transitive

Similar words

espantar

espantar can also just mean "to scare or startle" without necessarily driving something away; afugentar specifically means to drive something away by scaring it — both mean "to scare away."

Similar in other languages

Spanish

espantar

espantar is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "to scare away."

Practice

1 What does afugentar mean?

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