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)
- reflexive of riversare
- to pour out
- to rain precipitously; to rain cats and dogs
- 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.”)
- (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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