empantanar
Spanish, verb/empantaˈnaɾ/
empantanar is spelled E-M-P-A-N-T-A-N-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written Spanish, the 282,928th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empantanar is a Spanish verb meaning “to flood, swamp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Llenar de agua un terreno, dejándolo hecho un pantano”.
What does empantanar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flood, swamp
- 2
to ditch, leave aside, leave unfinished
- 3
to get bogged down
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Llenar de agua un terreno, dejándolo hecho un pantano. 2. Meter a uno en un pantano. 3. Detener, embarazar o impedir el curso de un proceso.
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 empantanar
- empantano first-person present singular
- empantané first-person preterite singular
- empantanado participle past
- empantanando gerund
- empantanada feminine participle past
- empantanados masculine participle past
- empantanadas feminine participle past
- empantanas indicative informal present
- empantanás indicative informal present
- empantana indicative present singular
- empantanamos first-person indicative plural
- empantanáis indicative plural present
- empantanan indicative plural present
- empantanaba first-person imperfect indicative
- empantanabas imperfect indicative second-person
- empantanábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- empantanabais imperfect indicative plural
- empantanaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empantanar?
- /empantaˈnaɾ/
- [ẽm.pãn̪.t̪aˈnaɾ]
- [ẽmpãn̪t̪aˈnaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to empantanar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empantanar in Spanish?
empantanar appears about once in every 66 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).