incrudelire
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.kru.deˈli.re/
- Rhymes: -ire
- Hyphenation: in‧cru‧de‧lì‧re
Verb
incrudelìre (first-person singular present incrudelìsco, first-person singular past historic incrudelìi, past participle incrudelìto, auxiliary (transitive, also intransitive in the sense "to act cruelly or violently") avére or (intransitive in the sense "to become cruel") èssere)
- (transitive, uncommon) to make cruel or pitiless
- (transitive, archaic) to harden (metal)
- Synonym: incrudire
- (transitive, archaic, figurative) to make more harsh or severe
- Synonyms: incrudire, rincrudire
- (intransitive) to become (more) cruel or pitiless [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive) to commit cruel acts, to act violently, to rage [+ su (object) = against] [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, figurative, literary) to act cruelly or violently (of a disease, fate, etc.) [+ su (object) = towards] [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
1Transitive, also intransitive in the sense "to act cruelly or violently".
2Intransitive in the sense "to become cruel".
Further reading
- incrudelire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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