trivellare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to auger, to drill with an auger
  2. (broadly, literary, transitive) to pierce, to penetrate
  3. (figuratively, transitive) to torment, to nag (of a doubt, suspicion, thought, etc.)

Frequency

34k
Hyphenated as
tri‧vel‧là‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tri.velˈla.re/
Etymology

From trivella + -are.

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