hundir

Inherited from Latin fundere, fundō, from Proto-Italic *hundō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd-. Doublet of fundir (“to cast, to melt”). Compare English found (“to cast metal”), founder (“to sink”).

• IPA^(key): /unˈdiɾ/ [ũn̪ˈd̪iɾ]

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: hun‧dir

hundir (first-person singular present hundo, first-person singular preterite hundí, past participle hundido)

1. (transitive) to sink, engulf
2. (transitive) to ruin, destroy
3. (reflexive) to sink, sink down
4. (reflexive) to collapse, cave in, subside
5. (reflexive) to break down, go to pieces, fall apart

• “hundir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28