smagrire
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zmaˈɡri.re/
- Rhymes: -ire
- Hyphenation: sma‧grì‧re
Verb
smagrìre (first-person singular present smagrìsco, first-person singular past historic smagrìi, past participle smagrìto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive) avére)
- (intransitive, informal) to become thin, to lose weight [auxiliary essere]
- Synonym: dimagrire
- (transitive, informal) to emaciate
- (transitive, technical, automotive, nautical) to thin, to make thiner or leaner (clay-based materials, coal, a fuel mixture, a sail, etc.)
- (transitive) to make thinner (in general)
- (transitive, agriculture) to exhaust, to impoverish, to deplete (the soil)
Conjugation
1Intransitive.
2Transitive.
Derived terms
Further reading
- smagrire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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