Definizione monolingua

itch

itch (third-person singular simple present itches, present participle itching, simple past and past participle itched)

1. (intransitive) To feel the need to scratch.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

     Capulet: ... Speak not, reply not, do not answer me; / My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest / That God had lent us but this only child; / But now I see this one is one too much, / And that we have a curse in having her: / Out on her, hilding!

2. (intransitive) To want or desire.

   He started learning to drive and he has been itching for opportunities to practice ever since.

3. (transitive) To cause to feel an itch.
4. (transitive, colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.
   • 2002: M D Huddleston, Missing Paige

     ""What makes you suspect him?"" Max asked as he itched his neck.

   • 2003: Ray Emerson, The Riddle of Cthulhu

     Ulysses thumped his side and itched his back side, then slipped into his car.

   • 2004: Philip Smucker, Al Qaedas Great Escape: The Military and the Media on Terrors Trail

     But when we asked more about the famous man whose specter still commanded the heights, the guard just sneered at me, pointed his gun back toward the road with one hand, and itched his chin with the other.

Wikipedia itch (plural itches)

1. A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
2. A desire or want.
   • 1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage:

     ... it left, however, a bee at his ear and an itch to transfer the buzzers attentions and tease his darling; for she had betrayed herself as right good game.

Definizione dizionario itch

	prudere
	to feel the need to scratch

	prurito
	a sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch

grattare

raschiare

ardere

ardore

bruciare

bruciore

crosta

desiderio

desiderio irresistibile

pizzicare

rogna

scabbia

solletico

voglia

Altri significati:

a desire

A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.

(transitive) To cause to feel an itch.

A desire or want.

(transitive, colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.

(intransitive) To feel the need to scratch.

to want or desire

(intransitive) To want or desire.