borrar

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borrar

1. (transitive) to erase

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “borrar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From borra +‎ -ar.

• Homophone: burrar (Portugal)
• Hyphenation: bor‧rar

borrar (first-person singular present borro, first-person singular preterite borrei, past participle borrado)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to smudge (to smear ink, especially if accidentally)

   Borrei meu desenho com a tinta da caneta.

   I smudged my drawing with pen ink.

2. (transitive) to blur (to make indistinct or hazy)

   Borramos os rostos que apareceram no vídeo.

   We blurred the faces that appeared in the video.

3. (transitive) to rub out (erase something using an eraser)

   Ela borrou a palavra porque a tinha escrito errado.

   She blurred the word because she'd written it wrong.

4. (transitive) to blot out or strike out; to obliterate (render text illegible by scribbling over it)

   Fiquei irritado e borrei tudo o que tinha escrito.

   I got mad and crossed out everything I'd written.

5. (transitive) to make dirty

   Mamãe borrou a camisa com mostarda.

   Mama got a smear of mustard on her shirt.

   1. (transitive, figuratively) to damage the reputation of

      Os boatos de corrupção borraram o senador.

      The rumors of corruption damaged the senator's reputation.

6. (transitive) to dirty with feces

   Aquela menina borrou a calcinha.

   That girl got poop on her panties.

   1. (reflexive, colloquial, literally) to crap one's pants (defecate into one's pants)

      Teve diarreia e se borrou todo.

      He had diarrhea and crapped himself.

   2. (reflexive, colloquial, figuratively) to crap one's pants (to be extremely frightened)

      Borro-me sempre que vejo uma mulher.

      I crap my pants whenever I see a woman.

7. (intransitive, vulgar) to defecate

   Ele me diz que borrou no chão ontem à noite.

   He tells me he shit on the floor last night.

• “borrar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

From borra (“rough wool”), formerly used for erasing.

• IPA^(key): /boˈraɾ/ [boˈraɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bo‧rrar

borrar (first-person singular present borro, first-person singular preterite borré, past participle borrado)

1. to erase or delete
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 17:

     La iniciación del Brujo está sujeta a cierto ritual, que le impone, entre otras cosas, las abluciones con el agua del Salto del Traiguén, a fin de que se le borre el bautismo.

     The initiation of the Witch is subject to a certain ritual, which requires, among other things, ablutions with the water of Traiguén Falls, so that the [Witch's] baptism is erased.

• → Tagalog: bura

• tachar

• “borrar”, 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

borrar

1. present indicative of borra