desbarrancar
Spanish, verb/desbaranˈkaɾ/
desbarrancar is a Spanish verb meaning “to throw off a cliff” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Arrojar barranca abajo”.
What does desbarrancar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to throw off a cliff
- 2
to crush
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Arrojar barranca abajo. 2. Destituir, derrocar. 3. Llevar o conducir al fracaso algo; o también provocarlo. 4. Echar, correr, despedir.
verb: 1. Caer o precipitarse un vehículo al vacío.
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 desbarrancar
- desbarranco first-person present singular
- desbarranqué first-person preterite singular
- desbarrancado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- desbarrancando gerund
- desbarrancada feminine participle past
- desbarrancados masculine participle past
- desbarrancadas feminine participle past
- desbarrancas indicative informal present
- desbarrancás indicative informal present
- desbarranca indicative present singular
- desbarrancamos first-person indicative plural
- desbarrancáis indicative plural present
- desbarrancan indicative plural present
- desbarrancaba first-person imperfect indicative
- desbarrancabas imperfect indicative second-person
- desbarrancábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- desbarrancabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desbarrancar?
- /desbaranˈkaɾ/
- [d̪ez.β̞a.rãŋˈkaɾ]
- [d̪esβ̞arãŋˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desbarrancar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desbarrancar in Spanish?
desbarrancar appears about once in every 71 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).