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Meaning of esquilmar



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esquilmar
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Exhaust the available resources of something or someone, impoverish. Also collect the profit on a farm, collect its fruits. There are doubts about the origin of this word, but the RAE assumes it from the Latin ex- ("out, taken out") and cyma, atis ("shoot of a plant").

  



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

It means harvesting, take advantage, collect, exploit, exploit, exhausting, razing. In figurative way Rob, squeeze, swindle, bleed.

  










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