scialacquare

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Keith

Today’s Parola del Giorno is the transitive verb, scialacquare, which means to squander or to fritter away.  The past participle is scialacquato, and avere is used in compound tenses. See the verb used below in its context:

Sua moglie è una spendacciona e non fa che scialaquare tutti i loro soldi! Dovrebbe darsi una calmata!

His wife is a spendthrift and does nothing but squander all of their money!  She should cool it!

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