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Spanish
Etymology
From acucia (“diligence, ardent desire”) + -ar, semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin acūtiēs (“sharpness”), from Latin acūtus. Possibly related to crucial.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /akuˈθjaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /akuˈsjaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧cu‧ciar
Verb
acuciar (first-person singular present acucio, first-person singular preterite acucié, past participle acuciado)
- (transitive) to encourage or urge on
- (transitive) to harass
un problema que acucia al país- a problem wreaking havoc on the country
2020, La economía circular, El concepto de sostenibilidad y los principales riesgos ambientales:se hace necesaria la acción conjunta de todos los países del mundo para abordar conscientemente los problemas ambientales que nos acucian.- Joint action by all the world's countries is necessary to consciously tackle the environmental problems that are harassing us.
Conjugation
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
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