atear

• Hyphenation: a‧te‧ar

atear (first-person singular present ateio, first-person singular preterite ateei, past participle ateado)

1. (transitive) to set (a fire) [with fogo ‘fire’ and a ‘to something’]

   A Polícia Judiciária deteve um homem suspeito de ter ateado fogo a casa da mãe.

   The Judiciary Police arrested a man suspected of having set fire to his mother's house.

2. (transitive) to kindle, to make more intense (a fire, flame, etc.)
3. (reflexive) to blaze, to become more intense (of a fire, flame, etc.)
4. (transitive, figurative) to kindle, to ignite, to inflame [with direct object ‘one's soul, etc.’; or with direct object ‘an emotion’ and em ‘in someone’]
5. (reflexive, figurative) to blaze, to intensify (of an emotion) [with em ‘in someone’]