llenar

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: lle‧nar

From lleno (“full”) +‎ -ar.^[1]

llenar (first-person singular present lleno, first-person singular preterite llené, past participle llenado)

1. (transitive) to fill something up

   Synonyms: colmar, rellenar

2. (transitive) to fill out or complete a form

   Synonym: rellenar

   Por favor llene este formulario.

   Please fill out this form.

3. (transitive) to complete a group

   Synonym: completar

4. (intransitive, rare, of the moon) to become full
5. (pronominal, colloquial) to gorge, to chow down
6. (ambitransitive, pronominal, colloquial) to smear, soil, stain (something or someone); to become smeared, dirty, stained.

   Synonyms: poner, manchar

   Me llené las de pintura.

   I smeared my hands with paint.

   Mis manos se llenaron de lodo por jugar en el suelo.

   My hands got soiled with mud because of playing on the ground.

Borrowed from Italian genare.

llenar (first-person singular present lleno, first-person singular preterite llené, past participle llenado)

1. (transitive, chiefly Cuba and Uruguay, rare in Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Argentina) to bother, to tire

   Synonym: molestar

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• “llenar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025