estenuare
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es.te.nuˈa.re/, /es.teˈnwa.re/[1]
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: e‧ste‧nu‧à‧re, e‧ste‧nuà‧re
Verb
estenuàre (first-person singular present estènuo, first-person singular past historic estenuài, past participle estenuàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to make thin, to thin
- (transitive, by extension) to wear out, to tire out, to weaken, to exhaust
- (transitive, figurative) to impoverish
Conjugation
Conjugation of estenuàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
References
- ^ estenuo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)