ajusticiar
Spanish, verb/axustiˈθjaɾ/
ajusticiar is spelled A-J-U-S-T-I-C-I-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish, the 99,300th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ajusticiar is a Spanish verb meaning “to execute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Ejecutar la sentencia de muerte que ha sido dictaminada por la justicia en contra de un reo”.
What does ajusticiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to execute
- 2
to sentence to death
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ejecutar la sentencia de muerte que ha sido dictaminada por la justicia en contra de un reo. 2. Dar muerte como justo castigo.
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 ajusticiar
- ajusticio first-person present singular
- ajusticié first-person preterite singular
- ajusticiado participle past
- ajusticiando gerund
- ajusticiada feminine participle past
- ajusticiados masculine participle past
- ajusticiadas feminine participle past
- ajusticias indicative informal present
- ajusticiás indicative informal present
- ajusticia indicative present singular
- ajusticiamos first-person indicative plural
- ajusticiáis indicative plural present
- ajustician indicative plural present
- ajusticiaba first-person imperfect indicative
- ajusticiabas imperfect indicative second-person
- ajusticiábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- ajusticiabais imperfect indicative plural
- ajusticiaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ajusticiar?
- /axustiˈθjaɾ/
- [a.xus.t̪iˈθjaɾ]
- /axustiˈsjaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ajusticiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ajusticiar in Spanish?
ajusticiar appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).