abbrutire

Italian

Etymology

From a- +‎ bruto +‎ -ireCategory:Italian terms prefixed with a-#BRUTOCategory:Italian terms suffixed with -ire#ABBRUTIRE.

Pronunciation

Verb

abbrutìre (first-person singular present abbrutìscoCategory:Italian links with redundant wikilinks#ABBRUTIRE, first-person singular past historic abbrutìiCategory:Italian links with redundant wikilinks#ABBRUTIRE, past participle abbrutìtoCategory:Italian links with redundant wikilinks#ABBRUTIRE, auxiliary (transitive) avéreCategory:Italian links with redundant wikilinks#ABBRUTIRE or (intransitive) èssereCategory:Italian links with redundant wikilinks#ABBRUTIRE)Category:Italian lemmas#ABBRUTIRECategory:Italian verbs#ABBRUTIRECategory:Italian verbs ending in -ire#ABBRUTIRECategory:Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary#ABBRUTIRECategory:Italian verbs taking essere as auxiliary#ABBRUTIRECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#ABBRUTIRECategory:Pages with entries#ABBRUTIRECategory:Pages with 1 entry#ABBRUTIRE

  1. (transitiveCategory:Italian transitive verbs#ABBRUTIRE) to brutalize
  2. (transitiveCategory:Italian transitive verbs#ABBRUTIRE) to exhaust; to degrade; to stultify
  3. (intransitiveCategory:Italian intransitive verbs#ABBRUTIRE) to be brutalized, to become brutish [with in ‘due to’] [auxiliary essere]

Usage notes

  • Do not confuse with abbruttire (“to make ugly, to deface”), from brutto (“ugly”).

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Derived terms

Further reading

  • abbrutire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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