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Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *proexsūcāre, from Late Latin exsūcāre (“to extract”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /proʃ.ʃuˈɡa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: pro‧sciu‧gà‧re
Verb
prosciugàre (first-person singular present prosciùgo, first-person singular past historic prosciugài, past participle prosciugàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to dry up
- (transitive, by extension) to overconsume (a resource); to eat up
- prosciugare le energie ― to consume all one's energy
- (transitive) to make (a person) extremely skinny
la malattia lo sta prosciugando- the illness is making him very skinny
- (transitive) to reclaim (wetlands, etc.)
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