escarrassar-se
Catalan
Etymology
From escarrar.
Pronunciation
Verb
escarrassar-se (first-person singular present m'escarrasso, first-person singular preterite m'escarrassí, past participle escarrassat)
- to strain, exhaust oneself
- Synonym: esforçar
- No t'escarrassis tant, que t'hi deixaràs l'esquena. ― Don't stretch out so much, or else you'll break your back on it.
- 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 16, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
- Vaig renunciar. Per què escarrassar-m'hi? Què hi guanyava, pegant-li?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of escarrassar-se (first conjugation)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “escarrassar-se” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “escarrassar-se”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007