sbancare

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Italian

Etymology

From s- +‎ banca (bank) +‎ -are.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zbanˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: sban‧cà‧re

Verb

sbancàre (first-person singular present sbànco, first-person singular past historic sbancài, past participle sbancàto, auxiliary avére or (in the rare sense "to go backrupt") èssere)

  1. (transitive, games) to break, to clear (the bank, a casino, etc.) (to win the entire sum banked or held)
  2. (intransitive, informal) to break the bank (to be smashingly successful)
  3. (intransitive, rare) to go bankrupt
  4. (transitive, finance) to bankrupt, to ruin financially
  5. (transitive, civil engineering) to excavate (the ground), flattening geological benches/terraces
  6. (transitive, nautical, archaic) to remove the benches from (usually a lifeboat)

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