estragar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to spoil, corrupt
  2. (transitive) to destroy, raze, ruin, ravage

Synonyms

Hyphenated as
es‧tra‧gar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/estɾaˈɡaɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish estragar, from Vulgar Latin *stragāre, from Latin strāges (“defeat, slaughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- whence English strew and destroy.

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