cañonear
Spanish, verb/kaɲoneˈaɾ/
cañonear is a Spanish verb meaning “to cannonade, to shell, to bombard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Atacar con muchos cañonazos”.
What does cañonear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cannonade, to shell, to bombard
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Atacar con muchos cañonazos.
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 cañonear
- cañoneo first-person present singular
- cañoneé first-person preterite singular
- cañoneado participle past
- cañoneando gerund
- cañoneada feminine participle past
- cañoneados masculine participle past
- cañoneadas feminine participle past
- cañoneas indicative informal present
- cañoneás indicative informal present
- cañonea indicative present singular
- cañoneamos first-person indicative plural
- cañoneáis indicative plural present
- cañonean indicative plural present
- cañoneaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cañoneabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cañoneábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cañoneabais imperfect indicative plural
- cañoneaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cañonear?
- /kaɲoneˈaɾ/
- [ka.ɲo.neˈaɾ]
- [kaɲoneˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cañonear in Spanish?
cañonear appears about once in every 42 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).