fundir

Meaning

  1. to smelt, to cast
  2. to melt
  3. to fade, to merge, to fuse
  4. (colloquial) to waste
  5. (obsolete) to sink
  6. (Mexico,reflexive) to burn out (of lightbulbs and similar light-producing devices)

Frequency

35k
Hyphenated as
fun‧dir
Pronounced as (IPA)
/funˈdiɾ/
Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fundere. Doublet of hundir (“to sink”). Cognate with English found (“to melt”) and fuse.

Cognate with English
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