menoscabar
Spanish, verb/menoskaˈbaɾ/
menoscabar is spelled M-E-N-O-S-C-A-B-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 62,142nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Menoscabar is a Spanish verb meaning “to lessen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Disminuir las cosas, quitándoles una parte; acortarlas, reducirlas a menos”.
What does menoscabar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lessen
menoscabar su premio
- 2
to sully; to mutilate
- 3
to undermine
menoscabar su poder
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Disminuir las cosas, quitándoles una parte; acortarlas, reducirlas a menos. 2. Deteriorar y deslustrar una cosa, quitándole parte de la estimación o lucimiento que antes tenía. 3. Causar mengua o descrédito en la honra o en la fama.
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 menoscabar
- menoscabo first-person present singular
- menoscabé first-person preterite singular
- menoscabado participle past
- menoscabando gerund
- menoscabada feminine participle past
- menoscabados masculine participle past
- menoscabadas feminine participle past
- menoscabas indicative informal present
- menoscabás indicative informal present
- menoscaba indicative present singular
- menoscabamos first-person indicative plural
- menoscabáis indicative plural present
- menoscaban indicative plural present
- menoscababa first-person imperfect indicative
- menoscababas imperfect indicative second-person
- menoscabábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- menoscababais imperfect indicative plural
- menoscababan imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce menoscabar?
- /menoskaˈbaɾ/
- [me.nos.kaˈβ̞aɾ]
- [menoskaˈβ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to menoscabar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is menoscabar in Spanish?
menoscabar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).