escurrir
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish escorrer, from Latin excurrere (whence English excursion). Cf. also Portuguese escorrer, Asturian escorrer, Galician escorrentar.
Verb
[edit]escurrir (first-person singular present escurro, first-person singular preterite escurrí, past participle escurrido)
- to drain, to strain
- to wring
- Escurrió la camisa y la tendió a secar.
- She wrung out the shirt and hung it out to dry.
- (reflexive) to slip away, escape
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of escurrir (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of escurrir
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish escurrir, from Vulgar Latin *excorrigere, cognate with Italian scorgere (“to see, notice; guide, escort”).
Verb
[edit]escurrir (first-person singular present escurro, first-person singular preterite escurrí, past participle escurrido)
Further reading
[edit]- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “correr”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 210
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “escurrir”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 722
- “escurrir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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