carbonizar

carbonizar (first-person singular present carbonizo, first-person singular preterite carbonizei, past participle carbonizado)

1. to char (to burn something to charcoal)
2. (by extension) to burn completely
   • 1957, “Apresentação de Paulo Roberto”, performed by Orquestra Afro-Brasileira:

     Onde o sol queimou a pele dos homens
     Até carbonizá-la em negro

     Where the sun burnt the skin of men
     Until charring it black

From carbón +‎ -izar.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kaɾboniˈθaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kaɾboniˈsaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: car‧bo‧ni‧zar

carbonizar (first-person singular present carbonizo, first-person singular preterite carbonicé, past participle carbonizado)

1. (transitive) to carbonize
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 316:

     Tostando una golondrina viva hasta carbonizarla y reduciéndola a polvo

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “carbonizar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10