sparecchiare
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From s- + apparecchiare.
Verb edit
sparecchiàre (first-person singular present sparécchio, first-person singular past historic sparecchiài, past participle sparecchiàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to clear (the table)
- Antonym: apparecchiare
- (transitive, figurative, often hyperbolic) to clear away, to eat up (all the food served)
- (transitive, by extension, uncommon) to wolf down, to eat greedily and in large quantities
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of sparecchiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Further reading edit
- sparecchiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana