escrachar

Debated, but probably from Spanish escrachar.

• Hyphenation: es‧cra‧char

escrachar (first-person singular present escracho, first-person singular preterite escrachei, past participle escrachado)

1. (transitive, Brazil, colloquial) to book, to mugshot (to photograph and register someone's details with the police)
2. (transitive, Brazil, colloquial) to unmask (to reveal the intentions of someone who was trying to hide them)

   Synonym: desmascarar

3. (transitive, Brazil, colloquial) to reprimand severely
4. (transitive, Brazil, colloquial) to ridicule

   Synonym: ridicularizar

• “escrachar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “escrachar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “escrachar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “escrachar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Uncertain; proposed are Italian schiacciare (“to crush”), Ligurian scracâ, or English scratch.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /eskɾaˈt͡ʃaɾ/ [es.kɾaˈt͡ʃaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧cra‧char

escrachar (first-person singular present escracho, first-person singular preterite escraché, past participle escrachado)

1. (Rioplatense) to destroy; defeat

   Synonyms: romper, destruir, aplastar

2. (Rioplatense) to give away; rat on
3. (Rioplatense) to publicly shame someone for their illegal actions or gross misconduct

   Synonym: (Chile) funar

• “escrachar”, 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