riversarsi

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ri.verˈsar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: ri‧ver‧sàr‧si

Verb

riversàrsi (first-person singular present mi rivèrso, first-person singular past historic mi riversài, past participle riversàto) (intransitive)

  1. reflexive of riversare
  2. to pour out
  3. to rain precipitously; to rain cats and dogs
  4. to organize in large groups (of people)
    Synonyms: affluire, concorrere, accorrere
    • 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
      La sera tardi, quando masse di prolet si riversavano per le strade, la città prendeva un'aria stranamente febbrile.
      Late at night, when crowds of rowdy proles roamed the streets, the town had a curiously febrile air.
      (literally, “Late in the evening, when masses of proles poured into the streets, the city took on a strangely febrile air.”)
  5. (with su) to fall on (of a responsibility, blame, etc.)
    Synonym: ricadere
    la colpa si riversa su di me
    the blame falls on me

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