--- title: "apachurrado" translation: "Down. Deflated. Feeling low." type: "word" category: "slang" url: "https://consalsa.app/words/apachurrado" canonical: "https://consalsa.app/words/apachurrado" published: "2026-09-05" updated: "2026-09-05" author: "Andrey the Nomad" site: "ConSalsa.App" license: "https://consalsa.app/about" --- # apachurrado URL: https://consalsa.app/words/apachurrado Translation: Down. Deflated. Feeling low. Pronunciation: /a.pa.tʃuˈra.ðo/ Category: slang Region: Mexico Register: casual, gentle, safe with anyone Variants: apachurrada, ando apachurrado, apachurrarse, agüitado Literal meaning: Apachurrar is to squash something flat. Apachurrado is what that looks like on a person. Tone & safety: Completely safe, and softer than it looks. Saying somebody is apachurrado is closer to concern than to diagnosis. Published: 2026-09-05 Quick answer: - Apachurrado means down, deflated, low - the mood, not the diagnosis. - Apachurrar means to squash something flat, so the word is literally squashed. - It is gentle and temporary. Agüitado means the same thing, and apapachar - one syllable away - is the opposite. What it means: - Somebody has gone flat. Not crying, not in crisis - quieter than usual, moving slowly, saying less. Apachurrado is the word for exactly that and no more. - The size of it is the point. Mexican Spanish has heavier words available and this is not one of them, so calling a friend apachurrado registers that you noticed without turning it into something they have to respond to. Literal meaning: - Apachurrar is to squash, crush or flatten - a box, a bug, a bag of bread at the bottom of the shopping. Apachurrado is the past participle doing what past participles do, so a person described this way is being pictured as something that has been pressed down. - It is worth keeping the physical sense in view, because it is still in daily use. No apachurres el pastel is a real sentence somebody will say to you, and nothing about it is emotional. - The one every chilango meets first is bodies rather than boxes. Vine bien apachurrado en el metro is Línea 1 at eight in the morning, and venimos apachurrados is said in any crowded space. Same word, no mood involved. How Mexicans use it: - It arrives most often as an observation rather than a confession. Te veo apachurrado, ¿todo bien? is how somebody opens the conversation, and it works because it is small enough to be waved off. - The reflexive turns it into something that happened: me apachurré con la noticia. That frames the mood as a reaction to a specific thing, which is often easier to say than I feel bad. - In chat it shows up bare, usually as an answer to how are you, and usually with an emoji doing the softening. Ando apachurrado 🫠 is a complete message, and the reply is normally a question rather than advice. - Parents use it about children and owners use it about pets, which tells you the register better than any explanation - it is a word for something you want to look after, not something you want to fix. Common mistake: - Saying apapachado when you mean apachurrado. They differ by one syllable and by everything else: apapachado is being held and comforted, apachurrado is being flattened. Ando apapachado means somebody is looking after you. - Reaching for deprimido as a translation. Depressed is a claim about a condition; apachurrado is a description of an afternoon. Using the heavy word where Mexicans use the light one lands strangely, and it makes a small check-in into a large one. Examples: - Ando apachurrado, no sé ni por qué. — I'm feeling low, I don't even know why. - Te veo apachurrada, ¿todo bien? — You look down, everything okay? - Me apachurré con la noticia. — The news knocked the wind out of me. - Anda bien apachurrado desde que se le murió el perro. — He's been really down since his dog died. - Vine bien apachurrado en el metro. — I got crushed on the metro. Mini dialogue: A: ¿Y ahora? Andas bien callada. B: Nada, ando apachurrada. Se me juntaron cosas. A: ¿Quieres contarme o quieres que te deje en paz? B: Que me dejes en paz, pero aquí. A: Va. Te traigo un café y ya. FAQ: Q: What does apachurrado mean? A: Down, deflated, feeling low. Apachurrar means to squash something flat, so the word describes a person who has gone flat. Q: What is the difference between apachurrado and apapachado? A: One syllable and the entire meaning. Apachurrado is squashed and low. Apapachado is being held and comforted. An apapacho is the standard answer to somebody who is apachurrado. Q: Is apachurrado the same as depressed? A: No, and the difference matters. Deprimido is clinical and heavy. Apachurrado is a mood that will probably pass by Thursday, which is why Mexicans use it far more often. Q: Is agüitado the same as apachurrado? A: Yes, essentially. Both mean down and both are gentle. Bajoneado is a third option. They swap into almost any sentence without changing anything. Q: Can apachurrado mean physically squashed? A: Yes, and in CDMX that is where you will meet it first. Vine bien apachurrado en el metro means you got crushed in the crowd - no mood involved at all. Q: How do you say I'm feeling down in Mexican Spanish? A: Ando apachurrado, or ando agüitado. Adding bien makes it stronger - ando bien apachurrado - and adding a reason with me apachurré con makes it about a specific thing. Q: Can apachurrar be used literally? A: Yes, constantly. No apachurres el pan, se apachurró la caja. The physical sense never went anywhere; the mood sense is the same verb aimed at a person. Q: How do you reply when a friend says ando apachurrado? A: A question works better than advice - ¿qué pasó? or ¿quieres contarme? And ¿te doy un apapacho? is both the literal answer and the joke. Related words: apapachar, chale, flojera, crudo, esta-del-nabo