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abollar

Spanish, verb/aboˈʝaɾ/

abollar is spelled A-B-O-L-L-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written Spanish, the 206,423rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abollar is a Spanish verb meaning “to dent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Producir, por un golpe o presión, una depresión en una superficie”.

What does abollar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to dent

  2. 2

    to tread, to trample

  3. 3

    to emboss

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Producir, por un golpe o presión, una depresión en una superficie. 2. Adornar con bollos o relieves semiesféricos metales y telas.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of abollar

  • abollo first-person present singular
  • abollé first-person preterite singular
  • abollado participle past
  • abollando gerund
  • abollada feminine participle past
  • abollados masculine participle past
  • abolladas feminine participle past
  • abollas indicative informal present
  • abollás indicative informal present
  • abolla indicative present singular
  • abollamos first-person indicative plural
  • abolláis indicative plural present
  • abollan indicative plural present
  • abollaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • abollabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • abollábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • abollabais imperfect indicative plural
  • abollaban imperfect indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce abollar?

  • /aboˈʝaɾ/
  • [a.β̞oˈʝaɾ]
  • [aβ̞oˈʝaɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to abollar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is abollar in Spanish?

abollar appears about once in every 33 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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