accasciarsi

Italian

Etymology

From accasciare + -si.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ak.kaʃˈʃar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: ac‧ca‧sciàr‧si

Verb

accasciàrsi (first-person singular present mi accàscio, first-person singular past historic mi accasciài, past participle accasciàto)

  1. reflexive of accasciare
  2. to collapse
    • mid 1300smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 52–54; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      E però leva sù; vinci l’ambascia
      con l’animo che vince ogni battaglia,
      se col suo grave corpo non s’accascia.
      And therefore raise up, overcome the anguish with spirit that overcomes every battle, if with its heavy body it sinks not.
  3. (figurative) to lose heart

Conjugation

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