amareggiare
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ma.redˈd͡ʒa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: a‧ma‧reg‧già‧re
Verb
amareggiàre (first-person singular present amaréggio, first-person singular past historic amareggiài, past participle amareggiàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, figurative) to embitter, to make bitter
- Synonyms: affligere, addolorare; see also Thesaurus:rattristare
- 1946, Ernest Hemingway, translated by Giuseppe Trevisani, Fiesta [The Sun Also Rises], Einaudi:
- Cohn era un ragazzo per bene, un ragazzo socievole e molto timido, e la cosa lo amareggiava.
- He was a nice boy, a friendly boy, and very shy, and it made him bitter.
- (literally, “Cohn was a respectable boy, a sociable and very shy boy, and it embittered him.”)
Conjugation
Conjugation of amareggiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
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