sbancare

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Italian

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Etymology

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From s- +‎ banca (bank) +‎ -are.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /zbanˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: sban‧cà‧re

Verb

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sbancàre (first-person singular present sbànco, first-person singular past historic sbancài, past participle sbancàto, auxiliary avére or (in the rare sense "to go backrupt") èssere)

  1. (transitive, games) to break, to clear (the bank, a casino, etc.) (to win the entire sum banked or held)
  2. (intransitive, informal) to break the bank (to be smashingly successful) [auxiliary avere]
  3. (intransitive, rare) to go bankrupt [auxiliary essere]
  4. (transitive, finance) to bankrupt, to ruin financially
  5. (transitive, civil engineering) to excavate (the ground), flattening geological benches/terraces
  6. (transitive, nautical, archaic) to remove the benches from (usually a lifeboat)

Conjugation

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