sconquassare
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From s- (intensifier) + conquassare, from Latin conquassāre (“to shake violently, to shatter”), from Latin quassāre (“to shake repeatedly”), whence also French casser (“to break”).
Verb
[edit]sconquassàre (first-person singular present sconquàsso, first-person singular past historic sconquassài, past participle sconquassàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to smash to pieces, to shatter (by shaking violently)
- (transitive) to upset (one's stomach)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of sconquassàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- sconquassare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana