abrutir

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See also: abrutìr

French

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Etymology

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From a- +‎ brute +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.bʁy.tiʁ/
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Verb

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abrutir

  1. (transitive) to render idiotic; to turn into idiots
  2. (transitive, intransitive) to blunt or deaden the mind
  3. (transitive) to overwhelm, to devastate
  4. (literary) to return to a brutish or bestial state

Conjugation

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This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Derived terms

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Further reading

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