engavetar

From en- +‎ gaveta +‎ -ar.

engavetar (first-person singular present engaveto, first-person singular preterite engavetei, past participle engavetado)

1. (transitive) to store in a drawer
2. (transitive, figurative) to shelve (a proposal, application, etc.)
3. (intransitive) to crash into another railway car (of a railway car, in an accident)
4. (intransitive or reflexive) to collide together (of cars or other vehicles, in an accident)

• engavetamento

• gaveta

• “engavetar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “engavetar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

From en- +‎ gaveta +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /enɡabeˈtaɾ/ [ẽŋ.ɡa.β̞eˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: en‧ga‧ve‧tar

engavetar (first-person singular present engaveto, first-person singular preterite engaveté, past participle engavetado)

1. (Latin America, transitive) to sweep under the rug (to conceal a problem rather than dealing with it)
   • 2017 January 26, “Retrato del adolescente cubano”, in Juventud Rebelde‎^[1]:

     A juicio de este reportero debe apostarse por no engavetar los resultados; convirtámoslos en arma útil para el andar cotidiano.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “engavetar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024