machucar

• amachucar, machacar

Attested since circa 1300. Probably from machar (“to grind”), from macho (“mallet”), from Latin marculus (“small hammer”).

• IPA^(key): /mat͡ʃuˈkaɾ/

machucar (first-person singular present machuco, first-person singular preterite machuquei, past participle machucado)

1. (transitive) to hurt; to injure with a blunt weapon

   Synonym: magoar

2. (transitive) to squash, crush, smash

   Synonym: esmagar

• Note: machuc- are changed to machuqu- before front vowels (e).

• machar
• macho

• “machucar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “machuca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “machucar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “machucar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “machucar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From the verb machar (“to grind”), from macho (“mallet”), from Latin marculus (“small hammer”). Compare Spanish machucar.

machucar (first-person singular present machuco, first-person singular preterite machuquei, past participle machucado)

1. (transitive) to hurt (to cause physical pain)

   Synonyms: ferir, magoar

   • 1973, Nelson Cavaquinho; Guilherme de Brito (lyrics and music), “A Flor e o Espinho”:

     Hoje pra você eu sou espinho / Espinho não machuca flor

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. (transitive, figurative) to hurt (to cause emotional pain)

   Synonyms: ofender, magoar

   • 1975, Juarez Santiago; Alonso da Modinha (lyrics and music), “Ainda gosto dela”, performed by Jacinto Silva:

     Se ela sentisse saudade / Não me machucava assim / Só porque eu gosto dela / E ela não gosta de mim

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• “machucar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “machucar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From the verb machar (“to grind”), from macho (“mallet”), from Latin marculus (“small hammer”).

• IPA^(key): /mat͡ʃuˈkaɾ/ [ma.t͡ʃuˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ma‧chu‧car

machucar (first-person singular present machuco, first-person singular preterite machuqué, past participle machucado)

1. to squash, crush
2. to bruise

• → Catalan: matxucar

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