infrollire

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Italian

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ frollo +‎ -ire.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /in.frolˈli.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: in‧frol‧lì‧re

Verb

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infrollìre (first-person singular present infrollìsco, first-person singular past historic infrollìi, past participle infrollìto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive) avére)

  1. (intransitive) to age, to become aged (of meat) [auxiliary essere]
  2. (intransitive) to become macerated, to become softened in water [auxiliary essere]
  3. (intransitive, figurative) to age, to become feeble (physically or mentally; of people) [auxiliary essere]
  4. (intransitive, figurative) to become spoiled, to become constitutionally lazy or soft (of people) [auxiliary essere]
  5. (transitive) to age (meat)
  6. (transitive, figurative) to age, to make (someone) feeble (physically or mentally)
  7. (transitive, figurative) to make (someone) spoiled or constitutionally lazy or soft

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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