deshojar
Spanish, verb/desoˈxaɾ/
deshojar is spelled D-E-S-H-O-J-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Spanish, the 165,375th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Deshojar is a Spanish verb meaning “to defoliate; to remove the leaves from a plant or petals from a flower” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Remover las hojas de una planta o los pétalos de una flor”.
What does deshojar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to defoliate; to remove the leaves from a plant or petals from a flower
- 2
to peel or husk
- 3
to tear pages from a book
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Remover las hojas de una planta o los pétalos de una flor. 2. Quitar la farfolla. 3. Sacar las páginas de un libro. 4. Agotar, gastar del todo.
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 deshojar
- deshojo first-person present singular
- deshojé first-person preterite singular
- deshojado participle past
- deshojando gerund
- deshojada feminine participle past
- deshojados masculine participle past
- deshojadas feminine participle past
- deshojas indicative informal present
- deshojás indicative informal present
- deshoja indicative present singular
- deshojamos first-person indicative plural
- deshojáis indicative plural present
- deshojan indicative plural present
- deshojaba first-person imperfect indicative
- deshojabas imperfect indicative second-person
- deshojábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- deshojabais imperfect indicative plural
- deshojaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce deshojar?
- /desoˈxaɾ/
- [d̪e.soˈxaɾ]
- [d̪esoˈxaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is deshojar in Spanish?
deshojar appears about once in every 20 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).