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