desollar
Spanish, verb/desoˈʝaɾ/
desollar is a Spanish verb meaning “to flay (strip skin off, lash)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Quitar la piel o una parte de ella a personas o animales”.
What does desollar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flay (strip skin off, lash)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Quitar la piel o una parte de ella a personas o animales. 2. Destrozar o dañar gravemente la reputación, honra, hacienda o salud de alguien.
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 desollar
- desuello first-person present singular
- desollé first-person preterite singular
- desollado participle past
- o-ue alternation
- desollando gerund
- desollada feminine participle past
- desollados masculine participle past
- desolladas feminine participle past
- desuellas indicative informal present
- desollás indicative informal present
- desuella indicative present singular
- desollamos first-person indicative plural
- desolláis indicative plural present
- desuellan indicative plural present
- desollaba first-person imperfect indicative
- desollabas imperfect indicative second-person
- desollábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- desollabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desollar?
- /desoˈʝaɾ/
- [d̪e.soˈʝaɾ]
- [d̪esoˈʝaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desollar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desollar in Spanish?
desollar appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).