arrasar
Spanish, verb/araˈsaɾ/
arrasar is spelled A-R-R-A-S-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Spanish, the 29,960th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrasar is a Spanish verb meaning “to level, to smooth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Poner una superficie llana o plana, hasta que todo quede al mismo nivel (a ras)”.
What does arrasar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to level, to smooth
- 2
to raze, to destroy
- 3
to annihilate, to devastate, to ravage, to exterminate
- 4
to triumph, to crush, to sweep (to be phenomenally successful)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poner una superficie llana o plana, hasta que todo quede al mismo nivel (a ras). 2. Destruir por completo, reducir a ruinas, pedazos o polvo, especialmente un lugar, una ciudad, o un terreno. 3. Poner a ras o igualar con un rasero la medida de diversos granos tales como el trigo, la cebada, etc., u otros materiales arenosos. 4. Llenar hasta el tope un recipiente, especialmente con líquido.
verb: 1. Quedar el cielo libre de nubes. 2. Obtener un triunfo o éxito rotundos. 3. Acompañado de la preposición con, destruir, avasallar o agotar todos los recursos disponibles.
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 arrasar
- arraso first-person present singular
- arrasé first-person preterite singular
- arrasado participle past
- arrasando gerund
- arrasada feminine participle past
- arrasados masculine participle past
- arrasadas feminine participle past
- arrasas indicative informal present
- arrasás indicative informal present
- arrasa indicative present singular
- arrasamos first-person indicative plural
- arrasáis indicative plural present
- arrasan indicative plural present
- arrasaba first-person imperfect indicative
- arrasabas imperfect indicative second-person
- arrasábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- arrasabais imperfect indicative plural
- arrasaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arrasar?
- /araˈsaɾ/
- [a.raˈsaɾ]
- [araˈsaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arrasar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arrasar in Spanish?
arrasar appears 1.3 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).