acuciar
Spanish
Etymology
From acucia (“diligence, ardent desire”) + -ar, semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin acūtiēs (“sharpness”), from Latin acūtus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /akuˈθjaɾ/ [a.kuˈθjaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /akuˈsjaɾ/ [a.kuˈsjaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧cu‧ciar
Verb
acuciar (first-person singular present acucio, first-person singular preterite acucié, past participle acuciado)
- (transitive) to encourage or urge on
- (transitive) to harass
- 1612, Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio, Las famosas asturianas, Act 2, page 77:
- La luz les quité delante,
aunque asaz se dormirán;
que el cansancio los acucia.- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- un problema que acucia al país
- a problem playing havoc on the country
- 2020, La economía circular, (Please provide the book title or journal name), El concepto de sostenibilidad y los principales riesgos ambientales:
- se hace necesaria la acción conjunta de todos los países del mundo para abordar conscientemente los problemas ambientales que nos acucian.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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Conjugation
Conjugation of acuciar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “acuciar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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