cebar
Spanish, verb/θeˈbaɾ/
cebar is spelled C-E-B-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 64,424th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cebar is a Spanish verb meaning “to bait” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dar o echar cebo a los animales para alimentarlos, engordarlos o atraerlos”.
What does cebar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bait
- 2
to fatten, feed
- 3
to charge, load
cebar los cañones
- 4
to turn on, vent, attack
El racista se ceba con los pobres.
- 5
to add hot water to the yerba mate
cebar el mate
- 6
to prime (fill with priming liquid)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dar o echar cebo a los animales para alimentarlos, engordarlos o atraerlos. 2. Alimentar, fomentar; como echar aceite a la luz, leña al fuego, mineral al horno, etc. 3. Poner en las armas y proyectiles que tienen carga explosiva, el cebo necesario para inflamarla. 4. Poner fuego al cohete u otro artificio de pólvora.
verb: 1. Penetrar, prender, agarrar o asirse una cosa en otra; como el clavo en la madera, el tornillo en la tuerca, etc.
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 cebar
- cebo first-person present singular
- cebé first-person preterite singular
- cebado participle past
- cebando gerund
- cebada feminine participle past
- cebados masculine participle past
- cebadas feminine participle past
- cebas indicative informal present
- cebás indicative informal present
- ceba indicative present singular
- cebamos first-person indicative plural
- cebáis indicative plural present
- ceban indicative plural present
- cebaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cebabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cebábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cebabais imperfect indicative plural
- cebaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cebar?
- /θeˈbaɾ/
- [θeˈβ̞aɾ]
- /seˈbaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cebar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cebar in Spanish?
cebar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).