struggere
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of distruggere (“to destroy”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]strùggere (first-person singular present strùggo, first-person singular past historic strùssi, past participle strùtto, auxiliary avére)
- (literary, figurative) to consume slowly, causing pain, sadness, etc.
- Synonyms: tormentare, estenuare
- quel pensiero ossessivo lo strugge ― that obsessive thought is consuming him
- 2000, Enrico Elli, Giuseppe Langella, Studi di letteratura italiana in onore di Francesco Mattesini, Vita e Pensiero, page 629:
- […] («l’anno si strugge in brace e in cenere», Poesie, p. 150), […]
- […] («the year is consumed in embers and ashes», Poesie, pg. 150), […]
- (rare) to melt
- Synonyms: sciogliere, squagliare, stemperare, disfare, fondere
- 2012, Carlo Botta, Storia naturale e medica dell’ isola di Corfu’, Nabu Press, page 11:
- […] ; ma essa neve presto si strugge, non potendo resistire al calore di quelle terre orientali.
- […] ; but this snow melts quickly, unable to resist those oriental lands’ heat.
- (archaic) to destroy
- Synonyms: distruggere, eliminare; see also Thesaurus:sradicare
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of strùggere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]- struggersi
- struggicuore (“heartbreak”)
- struggimento (“yearning”)
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