machucar
Spanish, verb/mat͡ʃuˈkaɾ/
machucar is spelled M-A-C-H-U-C-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written Spanish, the 241,869th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Machucar is a Spanish verb meaning “to squash, crush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Herir, golpear una cosa, maltratándola con una contusión”.
What does machucar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to squash, crush
- 2
to bruise
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Herir, golpear una cosa, maltratándola con una contusión. 2. Desbaratar a los enemigos, derrotarlos con mucha pérdida. 3. Aplastar o pisotear 4. Hablar mal un idioma extranjero
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 machucar
- machuco first-person present singular
- machuqué first-person preterite singular
- machucado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- machucando gerund
- machucada feminine participle past
- machucados masculine participle past
- machucadas feminine participle past
- machucas indicative informal present
- machucás indicative informal present
- machuca indicative present singular
- machucamos first-person indicative plural
- machucáis indicative plural present
- machucan indicative plural present
- machucaba first-person imperfect indicative
- machucabas imperfect indicative second-person
- machucábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- machucabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce machucar?
- /mat͡ʃuˈkaɾ/
- [ma.t͡ʃuˈkaɾ]
- [mat͡ʃuˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to machucar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is machucar in Spanish?
machucar appears about once in every 47 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).