sparecchiare
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From s- + apparecchiare.
Verb[edit]
sparecchiàre (first-person singular present sparécchio, first-person singular past historic sparecchiài, past participle sparecchiàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to clear (the table)
- Antonym: apparecchiare
- (transitive, figurative, often hyperbolic) to clear away, to eat up (all the food served)
- (transitive, by extension, uncommon) to wolf down, to eat greedily and in large quantities
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of sparecchiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Further reading[edit]
- sparecchiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana