Word of the day: Abduct

Abduct – regular verb (abdãct)

Take a person away illegally; kidnap.

He was abducted by aliens!

Abduzir

 

Word of the day: Abide

Abide – regular and irregular verb (abaid)

1. remain or dwell somewhere 2. bear or tolerate.

I can’t abide spiders.

Tolerar.

Word of the day: Abase

Abase – regular verb (from old French) (ãbeis)

To make a person feel humble or humiliated.

If you abase someone or something, then you are trying to lower its status. Typically, you abase by insulting, degrading, or lowering worth.

Rebaixar, degradar.

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Jenny Williams, ‘The Wolf Man’, 1941

 

 

 

“Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.”

Jenny Williams, ‘The Wolf Man’, 1941