Skip to main content

desplomar

Spanish, verb/desploˈmaɾ/

desplomar is spelled D-E-S-P-L-O-M-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish, the 152,151st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desplomar is a Spanish verb meaning “to knock down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer que una pared, un edificio u otra cosa pierda la posición vertical”.

What does desplomar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to knock down

  2. 2

    to plummet

  3. 3

    to collapse

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Hacer que una pared, un edificio u otra cosa pierda la posición vertical.

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 desplomar

  • desplomo first-person present singular
  • desplomé first-person preterite singular
  • desplomado participle past
  • desplomando gerund
  • desplomada feminine participle past
  • desplomados masculine participle past
  • desplomadas feminine participle past
  • desplomas indicative informal present
  • desplomás indicative informal present
  • desploma indicative present singular
  • desplomamos first-person indicative plural
  • desplomáis indicative plural present
  • desploman indicative plural present
  • desplomaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • desplomabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • desplomábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • desplomabais imperfect indicative plural
  • desplomaban imperfect indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce desplomar?

  • /desploˈmaɾ/
  • [d̪es.ploˈmaɾ]
  • [d̪esploˈmaɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is desplomar in Spanish?

desplomar appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What to look up after desplomar