strozzare

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Italian

Etymology

From strozza (“throat”) +‎ -are; compare Piedmontese strossé.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /strotˈt͡sa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: stroz‧zà‧re

Verb

strozzàre (first-person singular present stròzzo, first-person singular past historic strozzài, past participle strozzàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. (also figurative, also hyperbolic) to choke, to strangle
    Synonyms: strangolare, soffocare
  2. to suffocate
  3. to constrict (a pipe, duct, passage, etc.)
  4. (figurative, by extension) to throttle
    • 2020 July 29, Jamie D'Alessandro, “Il Congresso mette sotto accusa i grandi dell'hi-tech: Amazon, Apple, Facebook e Google [Congress acusses the greats of hi-tech:Amazon, Apple Facebook and Google]”, in la Repubblica‎:
      Dal commercio elettronico ai sistemi operativi per smartphone e ai suoi software, fino ai social network e ai motori di ricerca, la sotto commissione dell'antitrust vuol capire se stanno strozzando la concorrenza.
      From electronic commerce to smartphone operating systems and its software, to social networks and search engines, the antitrust sub-commission wants to know if they are throttling the competition.
  5. to put (someone) in grave financial difficulty due to usurious interest rates

Conjugation

    Conjugation of strozzàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive strozzàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund strozzàndo
present participle strozzànte past participle strozzàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present stròzzo stròzzi stròzza strozziàmo strozzàte stròzzano
imperfect strozzàvo strozzàvi strozzàva strozzavàmo strozzavàte strozzàvano
past historic strozzài strozzàsti strozzò strozzàmmo strozzàste strozzàrono
future strozzerò strozzerài strozzerà strozzerémo strozzeréte strozzerànno
conditional strozzerèi strozzerésti strozzerèbbe, strozzerébbe strozzerémmo strozzeréste strozzerèbbero, strozzerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present stròzzi stròzzi stròzzi strozziàmo strozziàte stròzzino
imperfect strozzàssi strozzàssi strozzàsse strozzàssimo strozzàste strozzàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
stròzza stròzzi strozziàmo strozzàte stròzzino
negative imperative non strozzàre non stròzzi non strozziàmo non strozzàte non stròzzino

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