carpire

Meaning

  1. (literary, transitive) to strip off or away, often by deceit
  2. (broadly, figuratively, transitive) to obtain with cunning or deceit; to do out of; to steal; to snatch
  3. (transitive) to catch; to grab

Concepts

Frequency

47k
Hyphenated as
car‧pì‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/karˈpi.re/
Etymology

From Latin carpō (infinitive carpere).

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