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cometer

[ko.meˈte(ʁ)]

verb

LanguagePortuguese (Portugal)

Meaning
  1. to commit, practice, undertake
  2. obsolete form of acometer
  3. to commit
  4. To perform an act, often a bad or illegal one. It can also mean to carry out a task or undertake something.
Examples

Um corsário francês cometeu um ataque contra o nosso navio.

A French corsair committed an attack against our ship.

Pronunciationko.meˈte(ʁ)

Part of speechverb

Usage noteCan be used in the sense of 'commit a crime' or 'commit an error'.

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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.