sobreexplotar
Spanish, verb/sobɾeeɡsploˈtaɾ/
sobreexplotar is a Spanish verb meaning “overexploit, overuse (especially a natural resource)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does sobreexplotar mean in English?
verb
- 1
overexploit, overuse (especially a natural resource)
- 2
overwork
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of sobreexplotar
- sobreexploto first-person present singular
- sobreexploté first-person preterite singular
- sobreexplotado participle past
- sobreexplotando gerund
- sobreexplotada feminine participle past
- sobreexplotados masculine participle past
- sobreexplotadas feminine participle past
- sobreexplotas indicative informal present
- sobreexplotás indicative informal present
- sobreexplota indicative present singular
- sobreexplotamos first-person indicative plural
- sobreexplotáis indicative plural present
- sobreexplotan indicative plural present
- sobreexplotaba first-person imperfect indicative
- sobreexplotabas imperfect indicative second-person
- sobreexplotábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- sobreexplotabais imperfect indicative plural
- sobreexplotaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sobreexplotar?
- /sobɾeeɡsploˈtaɾ/
- [so.β̞ɾe.eɣ̞s.ploˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sobreexplotar in Spanish?
sobreexplotar appears about once in every 74 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).