foguear
Spanish, verb/foɡeˈaɾ/
foguear is spelled F-O-G-U-E-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written Spanish, the 249,533rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Foguear is a Spanish verb meaning “to inure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Limpiar con fuego una arma, lo que se hace cargándola con poca pólvora y disparándola”.
What does foguear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to inure
- 2
to shoot a firearm with a blank
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Limpiar con fuego una arma, lo que se hace cargándola con poca pólvora y disparándola. 2. Acostumbrar a las personas o caballos al fuego de la pólvora. 3. Dotar a alguien de los conocimientos y experiencias necesarias para poder afrontar los peligros y dificultades que conlleva un determinado trabajo.
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 foguear
- fogueo first-person present singular
- fogueé first-person preterite singular
- fogueado participle past
- fogueando gerund
- fogueada feminine participle past
- fogueados masculine participle past
- fogueadas feminine participle past
- fogueas indicative informal present
- fogueás indicative informal present
- foguea indicative present singular
- fogueamos first-person indicative plural
- fogueáis indicative plural present
- foguean indicative plural present
- fogueaba first-person imperfect indicative
- fogueabas imperfect indicative second-person
- fogueábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- fogueabais imperfect indicative plural
- fogueaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce foguear?
- /foɡeˈaɾ/
- [fo.ɣ̞eˈaɾ]
- [foɣ̞eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is foguear in Spanish?
foguear appears about once in every 50 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).