sforzare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to force (a door, a person to do something, etc.)
  2. (transitive) to strain, to overexert (an engine, one's muscles, etc.)

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
sfor‧zà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sforˈt͡sa.re/
Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *exfortiāre, ultimately from Latin fortis (“strong”). Or, by surface analysis, s- + forza + -are.

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