prosciugare
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *proexsūcāre, from Late Latin exsūcāre (“to extract”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
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.)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of prosciugàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)