dehoca

• dihoca — Moldavia (region)
• devoca — Transylvania
• desvoca
• dezvoca

Unknown. Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *devocāre, from *devacuāre, from Latin vacuus,^[1] or from the form dezvoca, from a root *disvocāre. Compare Aromanian dizvoc, dizvucari, see also Romanian desfăca. Cf. Logudorese Sardinian bogare (“to take out, extract”), Campidanese debogada, Old French voiier (“to empty; take/bring out; clear, rid”), Gascon Occitan desboucà (“spill, scatter, pour”).^[2] Alternatively, the word may simply be an expressive creation related to dăbăla, dehula.

a dehoca (third-person singular present dehocă, past participle dehocat) 1st conjugation

1. (regional, archaic) to sacrifice an animal

   Synonyms: sacrifica, tăia

2. (regional, archaic) to break or tear to pieces; tear up

   Synonyms: sfâșia, rupe, sparge

3. (regional, archaic) to drain of energy, exhaust, tire, wear out

   Synonyms: istovi, extenua, obosi, epuiza, vlăgui