acometer

• cometer (obsolete)

From a- +‎ cometer.

• Hyphenation: a‧co‧me‧ter

acometer (first-person singular present acometo, first-person singular preterite acometi, past participle acometido)

1. (ambitransitive) to attack, assail
2. (transitive) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:acometer.

• “acometer”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “acometer”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “acometer”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “acometer”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “acometer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From a- +‎ cometer.

• IPA^(key): /akomeˈteɾ/ [a.ko.meˈt̪eɾ]

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: a‧co‧me‧ter

acometer (first-person singular present acometo, first-person singular preterite acometí, past participle acometido)

1. (transitive) to assail

   Synonym: atacar

2. (transitive, of an illness, etc.) to overtake
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 8:

     […] pero les está vedado al apropiarse ningún objeto, y al que lo hace, le acomete un desmayo, del cual no vuelve hasta el amanecer, en que despierta botado en pleno campo.

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3. (transitive) to undertake (a task, a project, an enterprise)

   Synonyms: emprender, intentar

   • 2017 March 13, “¿Servir comida y ya?”, in Juventud Rebelde‎^[1]:

     Aunque actualmente se acomete en varios municipios cubanos un importante plan de reparación en estos sitios, aún muchos de ellos no son lugares tan acogedores como se espera, y los ancianos prefieren regresar a casa con almuerzo y comida en los pozuelos, y alimentarse allá, solos.

     Although a significant reparation plan is being undertaken in numerous Cuban towns, many of them are still not as hospitable as expected, and the elderly prefer to return home with food in their bowls, and eat there, alone.

• “acometer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024