acuciar
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From acucia (“diligence, ardent desire”) + -ar, semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin acūtiēs (“sharpness”), from Latin acūtus. Possibly related to crucial.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /akuˈθjaɾ/ [a.kuˈθjaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /akuˈsjaɾ/ [a.kuˈsjaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧cu‧ciar
Verb
[edit]acuciar (first-person singular present acucio, first-person singular preterite acucié, past participle acuciado)
- (transitive) to encourage or urge on
- (transitive) to harass
- un problema que acucia al país
- a problem wreaking havoc on the country
- 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 quotation)
- 2020, La economía circular, 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.
- Joint action by all the world's countries is necessary to consciously tackle the environmental problems that are harassing us.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of acuciar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “acuciar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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