bullizzare

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From bullo (bully) +‎ -izzare.

Verb[edit]

This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

bullizzàre (first-person singular present bullìzzo, first-person singular past historic bullizzài, past participle bullizzàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, chiefly journalistic) to bully
    • 2020 August 25, Massimo Basile, “I repubblicani all'attacco della "sinistra socialista e radicale" di Biden. Haley: "Non siamo razzisti" [Republicans on the attack against Biden's "socialist and radical left". Haley: "We are not racists"]”, in la Repubblica[1]:
      Joe Biden - ha dichiarato il figlio del presidente - e la sinistra radicale ora vogliono toglierci la libertà di parola. Vogliono bullizzarci fino alla sottomissione.
      Joe Biden - declared the President's son - and the radical left want to take away our freedom of speech. They want to bully us into submission.

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