esfumar
Spanish, verb/esfuˈmaɾ/
esfumar is spelled E-S-F-U-M-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written Spanish, the 155,407th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esfumar is a Spanish verb meaning “to soften; to tone down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer que un color o contorno vaya perdiendo intensidad o definición gradualmente, para producir efectos…”.
What does esfumar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to soften; to tone down
- 2
to fade out; to vanish
- 3
colloquialto slip away (leave unnoticed)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer que un color o contorno vaya perdiendo intensidad o definición gradualmente, para producir efectos tales como el empaste de las sombras, la vaguedad, la lejanía, etc.
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 esfumar
- esfumo first-person present singular
- esfumé first-person preterite singular
- esfumado participle past
- esfumando gerund
- esfumada feminine participle past
- esfumados masculine participle past
- esfumadas feminine participle past
- esfumas indicative informal present
- esfumás indicative informal present
- esfuma indicative present singular
- esfumamos first-person indicative plural
- esfumáis indicative plural present
- esfuman indicative plural present
- esfumaba first-person imperfect indicative
- esfumabas imperfect indicative second-person
- esfumábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- esfumabais imperfect indicative plural
- esfumaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esfumar?
- /esfuˈmaɾ/
- [es.fuˈmaɾ]
- [esfuˈmaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to esfumar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is esfumar in Spanish?
esfumar appears about once in every 18 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).