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sgranare

Pronunciation: /zɡraˈna.re/

“sgranare” is an Italian word. Its 12 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to shell, to hull, to husk
  2. to pray, to tell (the rosary) (to recite devotions while fingering the beads of a rosary)
  3. to unleash, to fire (a barrage of shots using an automatic weapon)
  4. to rattle off (a series of items)
  5. to show (a smile)
  6. to cause (a rock, a piece of metal) to crumble
  7. to wolf down, to scarf, to eat greedily (usually in a pronominal construction)
  8. to eat
  9. to enlarge, to blow up (an image) so that the grain appears
  10. to grind (a gear)
  11. to grind the gears
  12. to detach (the anchor chain) from the winch

In Italian

  1. aprire il frutto di una pianta leguminosa per togliere il seme
  2. separare due parti a contatto di un ingranaggio

Etymology

From s- + grano (“grain”) + -are.

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