sconquassare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to smash to pieces, to shatter (by shaking violently)
  2. (transitive) to upset (one's stomach)

Concepts

Etymology

From s- (intensifier) + conquassare, from Latin conquassāre (“to shake violently, to shatter”), from Latin quassāre (“to shake repeatedly”), whence also French casser (“to break”).

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