travalicare

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Italian

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Etymology

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From tra- +‎ valicare.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tra.va.liˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: tra‧va‧li‧cà‧re
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Verb

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travalicàre (first-person singular present travàlico, first-person singular past historic travalicài, past participle travalicàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to exceed; to go beyond
    • 2020 July 23, “Usa, l'attacco di Pompeo alla Cina di Xi: "Il mondo libero trionfi su questa nuova tirannia"”, in la Repubblica[1]:
      Un tema che però travalica la divisione partitica, e vede sempre più impegnati i democratici, con Joe Biden che guida un "revisionismo" ostile a Pechino.
      A theme that, however, goes beyond party division, and sees the Democrats increasingly committed, with Joe Biden leading a hostile "revisionism" towards Beijing.
  2. (transitive, rare or literary) to cross (over)
  3. (transitive, archaic, figurative, by extension) to transgress
  4. (intransitive) to exaggerate
  5. (intransitive, literary) (with da and in) to switch [with da ‘from (one argument)’] [with in ‘to (another argument)’]

Conjugation

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