scorticare

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skor.tiˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: scor‧ti‧cà‧re

Verb

scorticàre (first-person singular present scórtico or scòrtico[1], first-person singular past historic scorticài, past participle scorticàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to skin or flay
  2. to scrape, to scratch the surface
  3. (figurative) to overcharge, to fleece

Conjugation

References

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

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