vazar

From Old Galician-Portuguese vazar (13th century, Pero Garcia Burgalês), from vazio (“empty”). Compare Portuguese vazar and Spanish vaciar.

• IPA^(key): [baˈθaɾ], (western) [baˈsaɾ]

vazar (first-person singular present vazo, first-person singular preterite vacei, past participle vazado)
vazar (first-person singular present vazo, first-person singular preterite vazei, past participle vazado, reintegrationist norm)

1. to empty
   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 653:

     Et, poys asi he, teño por bẽ que vazedes logo a villa et que uos uaades morar fora

     And, since it is like that, it pleases me that you empty now the town and go dwell outside

   Synonyms: baleirar, baldeirar, librar

2. to drain
   • 1934, Xaquín Lorenzo, "As dornas do Porto do Són", in Nós, 126-127, p. 111:

     Cando a embarcación queda en seco, pra lle vazar a auga que teña dentro, faise que quede máis baixa pola proa e abrese un burato que leva no calime, a ras da quilla, chamado cadoira

     When the ship is drydocked, for draining the water inside, they make her tilts towards the bow and then they open a drain in the bilge, by the keel, called cadoira

   Synonyms: escoar, decorrer

3. to ebb

   Synonym: devecer

• vacío

• “vazar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “vaz” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “vazar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “vazar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vazar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “vazar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From vazio + -iar.

• Hyphenation: va‧zar

vazar (first-person singular present vazo, first-person singular preterite vazei, past participle vazado)

1. to leak
2. (figurative) to become public or exposed (private content)

   Vazaram informações do governo! ― Government information leaked!

3. (Brazil, colloquial) to go away; to leave

   Synonym: bazar

   Eu vou vazar agora. ― I'm leaving now.