cohibir
Spanish, verb/koiˈbiɾ/
cohibir is spelled C-O-H-I-B-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Spanish, the 176,328th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cohibir is a Spanish verb meaning “to restrain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer que alguien o algo esté limitado o intimidado para actuar, existir o desarrollarse con libertad”.
What does cohibir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to restrain
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer que alguien o algo esté limitado o intimidado para actuar, existir o desarrollarse con libertad.
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 cohibir
- cohíbo first-person present singular
- cohibí first-person preterite singular
- cohibido participle past
- i-í alternation
- cohibiendo gerund
- cohibida feminine participle past
- cohibidos masculine participle past
- cohibidas feminine participle past
- cohíbes indicative informal present
- cohibís indicative informal present
- cohíbe indicative present singular
- cohibimos first-person indicative plural
- cohíben indicative plural present
- cohibía first-person imperfect indicative
- cohibías imperfect indicative second-person
- cohibíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cohibíais imperfect indicative plural
- cohibían imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cohibir?
- /koiˈbiɾ/
- [koi̯ˈβ̞iɾ]
- [kojˈβ̞iɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cohibir in Spanish?
cohibir appears about once in every 23 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).