arrastrar
Spanish, verb/arasˈtɾaɾ/
arrastrar is spelled A-R-R-A-S-T-R-A-R (9 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 16,530th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrastrar is a Spanish verb meaning “to drag” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Mover un objeto de lugar sin levantarlo”.
What does arrastrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drag
- 2
to pull, to tow, to haul
- 3
to incite
- 4
to sweep away (e.g., a river)
- 5
to lug, to drag along, to drag down
- 6
to crawl, to creep, to drag oneself
- 7
to grovel
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mover un objeto de lugar sin levantarlo. 2. Desplazar el ratón de un computador para mover objetos de la pantalla.
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 arrastrar
- arrastro first-person present singular
- arrastré first-person preterite singular
- arrastrado participle past
- arrastrando gerund
- arrastrada feminine participle past
- arrastrados masculine participle past
- arrastradas feminine participle past
- arrastras indicative informal present
- arrastrás indicative informal present
- arrastra indicative present singular
- arrastramos first-person indicative plural
- arrastráis indicative plural present
- arrastran indicative plural present
- arrastraba first-person imperfect indicative
- arrastrabas imperfect indicative second-person
- arrastrábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- arrastrabais imperfect indicative plural
- arrastraban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arrastrar?
- /arasˈtɾaɾ/
- [a.rasˈt̪ɾaɾ]
- [arasˈt̪ɾaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arrastrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arrastrar in Spanish?
arrastrar appears 3.2 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).