sgranare

• IPA^(key): /zɡraˈna.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: sgra‧nà‧re

From s- +‎ grano (“grain”) +‎ -are.

sgranàre (first-person singular present sgràno, first-person singular past historic sgranài, past participle sgranàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (transitive) to shell, to hull, to husk

   sgranare il cotone ― to gin cotton

   sgranare gli occhi ― to stare, to goggle, to gape (literally, “to shell the eyes”)

2. (transitive, Catholicism) to pray, to tell (the rosary) (to recite devotions while fingering the beads of a rosary)
3. (transitive, military) to unleash, to fire (a barrage of shots using an automatic weapon)
4. (transitive, uncommon) to rattle off (a series of items)
5. (transitive, uncommon) to show (a smile)

From s- +‎ grana +‎ -are.

sgranàre (first-person singular present sgràno, first-person singular past historic sgranài, past participle sgranàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (transitive) to cause (a rock, a piece of metal) to crumble
2. (transitive, figurative, informal) to wolf down, to scarf, to eat greedily (usually in a pronominal construction)
3. (intransitive, figurative, informal) to eat [auxiliary avere]
4. (transitive, photography) to enlarge, to blow up (an image) so that the grain appears

From ingranare (“to mesh”), with replacement of the prefix by s-.

sgranàre (first-person singular present sgràno, first-person singular past historic sgranài, past participle sgranàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (transitive, automotive) to grind (a gear)
2. (intransitive, automotive) to grind the gears [auxiliary avere]
3. (transitive, nautical) to detach (the anchor chain) from the winch

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