acometer

• cometer (obsolete)

From a- +‎ cometer.

• Hyphenation: a‧co‧me‧ter

acometer (first-person singular present acometo, first-person singular preterite acometi, past participle acometido)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to attack, assail
2. (transitive) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
3. inflection of acometer:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

For quotations using this term, see Citations:acometer.

• “acometer” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “acometer” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “acometer” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “acometer” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “acometer” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From a- +‎ cometer.

• IPA^(key): /akomeˈteɾ/ [a.ko.meˈt̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: a‧co‧me‧ter

acometer (first-person singular present acometo, first-person singular preterite acometí, past participle acometido)

1. (transitive) to assail

   Synonym: atacar

2. (transitive) to undertake (a task, a project, an enterprise)

   Synonyms: emprender, intentar

   • 2017 March 13, “¿Servir comida y ya?”, in Juventud Rebelde‎:

     Aunque actualmente se acomete en varios municipios cubanos un importante plan de reparación en estos sitios, aún muchos de ellos no son lugares tan acogedores como se espera, y los ancianos prefieren regresar a casa con almuerzo y comida en los pozuelos, y alimentarse allá, solos.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• acometida
• acometimiento

• “acometer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014