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boccheggiare

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Italian

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Etymology

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From bocca (mouth) +‎ -eggiare.

Verb

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boccheggiàre (first-person singular present bocchéggio, first-person singular past historic boccheggiài, past participle boccheggiàto, auxiliary avére) (intransitive)

  1. to fight for breath; to gasp; to pant [auxiliary avere]
    Synonym: ansimare
    • 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
      Adesso si dimenava sul pavimento, boccheggiando.
      She was thrashing about on the floor, fighting for breath.
      (literally, “She was squirming on the floor, panting.”)
  2. to be dying; to draw in one's last breaths
    Synonyms: essere in fin di vita, agonizzare, rantolare
  3. (figurative, by extension) to find oneself in grave difficulty; to struggle

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • boccheggiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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