traboccante

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Participle

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traboccante (plural traboccanti)

  1. present participle of traboccare

Adjective

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traboccante (plural traboccanti)

  1. (also with di) overflowing (with)
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
      Due dei Paesi in cui si verificarono le violenze maggiori furono la Siria e il Bahrein, dove c'erano gravi divisioni settarie e alcune minoranze privilegiate governavano a dispetto di maggioranze ampie e traboccanti di risentimento.
      Two of the countries that saw the worst violence were Syria and Bahrain, where sectarian divisions ran high and privileged minorities governed large and resentful majorities.
      (literally, “Two of the countries in which the greatest violence was present were Syria and Bahrein, where there were grave sectarian divisions and certain privileged minorities governed despite large majorities of people overflowing with resentment.”)