strascicare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From an alteration of strascinare.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]strascicàre (first-person singular present stràscico, first-person singular past historic strascicài, past participle strascicàto, auxiliary avére)
- (ergative) to trail (drag on the ground) [auxiliary avere]
- strascicare la gonna per terra ― to trail the dress on the ground
- la gonna strascica per terra ― the dress trails on the ground
- (transitive) (of feet or footwear) to scuff or shuffle
- (transitive) carry out an activity slowly or unwillingly
- strascicare un lavoro ― to slowly work on a project
- (transitive) to contract (an illness) and not bother to cure or palliate it
- strascicare un malanno ― plow through an illness
- (transitive) to pronounce slowly and monotonously
- strascicare le parole ― to slowly pronounce the words
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of strascicàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)