esquilmar
Spanish, verb/eskilˈmaɾ/
esquilmar is spelled E-S-Q-U-I-L-M-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Spanish, the 136,710th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esquilmar is a Spanish verb meaning “to harvest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Coger el fruto de las haciendas, heredades y ganados”.
What does esquilmar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to harvest
- 2
to exhaust, exploit, flog, plunder, deplete (resources)
- 3
to fleece (con or trick someone)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Coger el fruto de las haciendas, heredades y ganados. 2. Chupar con exceso las plantas el jugo de la tierra. 3. Menoscabar, agotar una fuente de riqueza sacando de ella mayor provecho que el debido.
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 esquilmar
- esquilmo first-person present singular
- esquilmé first-person preterite singular
- esquilmado participle past
- esquilmando gerund
- esquilmada feminine participle past
- esquilmados masculine participle past
- esquilmadas feminine participle past
- esquilmas indicative informal present
- esquilmás indicative informal present
- esquilma indicative present singular
- esquilmamos first-person indicative plural
- esquilmáis indicative plural present
- esquilman indicative plural present
- esquilmaba first-person imperfect indicative
- esquilmabas imperfect indicative second-person
- esquilmábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- esquilmabais imperfect indicative plural
- esquilmaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esquilmar?
- /eskilˈmaɾ/
- [es.kilˈmaɾ]
- [eskilˈmaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to esquilmar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is esquilmar in Spanish?
esquilmar appears about once in every 13 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).