abbagliarsi
Italian
Etymology
From abbagliare + -si.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ab.baʎˈʎar.si/
- Rhymes: -arsi
- Hyphenation: ab‧ba‧gliàr‧si
Verb
abbagliàrsi (first-person singular present mi abbàglio, first-person singular past historic mi abbagliài, past participle abbagliàto)
- reflexive of abbagliare: to dazzle oneself
- (intransitive) to be dazzled; to be blinded
- 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, “Capitolo XXXIII [Chapter 33]”, in I promessi sposi, Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, page 632:
- C’ebbe però a pensare il giorno dopo, che, mentre stava gozzovigliando in una bettola, gli vennero a un tratto de’ brividi, gli s’abbagliaron gli occhi, gli mancaron le forze, e cascò.
- But he had to put his mind to it the following day, when, while he was making merry in a tavern, he was suddenly shook by chills, his eyes became blind, his strength fading, and he fell down.
- (archaic, figurative) to be mistaken, to be wrong
- 1343, Giovanni Boccaccio, Amorosa visione [Loving Vision], published 1833, Chapter 3, page 15:
- Fermata allor mi disse: tu t’abbagli
Nel falso immaginar, e credi a questi,
ch’a dritta via son pessimi serragli.- She then stopped, and said to me: "You are mistaken because of false imagining, and believe these ones, who are bad locks to a right way."
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