descastar
Spanish, verb/deskasˈtaɾ/
descastar is spelled D-E-S-C-A-S-T-A-R (9 letters). Descastar is a Spanish verb meaning “to kill off a breed (of cattle)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Exterminar una casta de animales, especialmente dañinos desde el punto de vista de ciertos intereses humanos”.
What does descastar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to kill off a breed (of cattle)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Exterminar una casta de animales, especialmente dañinos desde el punto de vista de ciertos intereses humanos.
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 descastar
- descasto first-person present singular
- descasté first-person preterite singular
- descastado participle past
- descastando gerund
- descastada feminine participle past
- descastados masculine participle past
- descastadas feminine participle past
- descastas indicative informal present
- descastás indicative informal present
- descasta indicative present singular
- descastamos first-person indicative plural
- descastáis indicative plural present
- descastan indicative plural present
- descastaba first-person imperfect indicative
- descastabas imperfect indicative second-person
- descastábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- descastabais imperfect indicative plural
- descastaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descastar?
- /deskasˈtaɾ/
- [d̪es.kasˈt̪aɾ]
- [d̪eskasˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.