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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

encerado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ẽ.seˈɾa.du/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Waxed/wækst/
adjectiveverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3450 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O carro novo estava perfeitamente encerado."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Covered, treated, or polished with wax to protect, waterproof, or impart a shine.

    "He polished his leather boots until they had a deeply waxed and gleaming finish."
As verb
  1. 1

    Simple past tense and past participle of wax, meaning to apply wax to a surface.

    "She carefully waxed the wooden dining table before the holiday dinner party."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English noun 'weax', meaning wax, via Proto-Germanic *wahsam. The past participle form evolved to describe surfaces treated or polished with wax, as well as the biological accumulation in certain contexts.

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