estenuare

Italian

Etymology

From Latin extenuāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e.ste.nuˈa.re/, /e.steˈnwa.re/[1]
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: e‧ste‧nu‧à‧re, e‧ste‧nuà‧re

Verb

estenuàre (first-person singular present estènuo, first-person singular past historic estenuài, past participle estenuàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to make thin, to thin
  2. (transitive, by extension) to wear out, to tire out, to weaken, to exhaust
  3. (transitive, figurative) to impoverish

Conjugation

References

  1. estenuo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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