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empedar

Spanish, verb/empeˈdaɾ/

empedar is spelled E-M-P-E-D-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written Spanish, the 252,202nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empedar is a Spanish verb meaning “to get oneself drunk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Infinitivo de empedarse (verbo pronominal)”.

What does empedar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    Mexicovulgarto get oneself drunk

  2. 2

    colloquialto get someone drunk

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Infinitivo de empedarse (verbo pronominal).

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 empedar

  • empedo first-person present singular
  • empedé first-person preterite singular
  • empedado participle past
  • empedando gerund
  • empedada feminine participle past
  • empedados masculine participle past
  • empedadas feminine participle past
  • empedas indicative informal present
  • empedás indicative informal present
  • empeda indicative present singular
  • empedamos first-person indicative plural
  • empedáis indicative plural present
  • empedan indicative plural present
  • empedaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • empedabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • empedábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • empedabais imperfect indicative plural
  • empedaban imperfect indicative plural

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

How do you pronounce empedar?

  • /empeˈdaɾ/
  • [ẽm.peˈð̞aɾ]
  • [ẽmpeˈð̞aɾ]

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

How common is empedar in Spanish?

empedar appears about once in every 51 million words in written Spanish.

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

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