matar
ma.tar
[mat′ar]
vtd+vint+vpr
1 to kill, murder.
2 to destroy, annihilate.
3 to slaughter, butcher.
4 to extinguish, eliminate, quench.
5 to ruin, discredit.
6 to do something fast and badly.
7 to satisfy, quench (hunger, thirst).
8 matar-se a) to commit suicide. b) to ruin one’s health. c) to kill oneself working, toil to death: você se mata trabalhando / you toil yourself to death.Expressõesmatar a sede to quench one’s thirst.
matar a tiro to shoot (dead).