Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin extenuāre.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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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

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References

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

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