achicharrar

From chicharrar, which is onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /at͡ʃit͡ʃaˈraɾ/ [a.t͡ʃi.t͡ʃaˈraɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧chi‧cha‧rrar

achicharrar (first-person singular present achicharro, first-person singular preterite achicharré, past participle achicharrado)

1. (transitive) to scorch

   Synonym: chamuscar

   • 2024 July 12, Inma Carretero, “Feijóo, Abascal y el indio de McNamara”, in El País‎^[1]:

     A esas alturas, con Iglesias ya recogiendo el despacho, muchos socialistas que se habían resistido a su entrada en el Ejecutivo reconocían que si Unidas Podemos no hubiera estado en la coalición la pandemia habría machacado políticamente al PSOE, achicharrado por la oposición a izquierda y derecha.

     At that point, with Iglesias already packing up his office, many socialists who had resisted his entry into the Executive acknowledged that if Unidas Podemos had not been in the coalition, the pandemic would have politically crushed the PSOE, scorched by opposition from both the left and the right.

2. (intransitive) to roast; boil (be very hot)

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