spazzolare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]spazzolàre (first-person singular present spàzzolo, first-person singular past historic spazzolài, past participle spazzolàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to scrub with a brush, to brush, to scour
- (colloquial, regional) to devour, to polish off, to gulp down
- Synonyms: spazzare, divorare, trangugiare, ingurgitare
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of spazzolàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- spazzolare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana