stemperare
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stem.peˈra.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: stem‧pe‧rà‧re
Verb
stemperàre (first-person singular present stémpero or (traditional) stèmpero[1], first-person singular past historic stemperài, past participle stemperàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- (also figurative) to dissolve or dilute
- Synonyms: dissolvere, diluire, scogliere, disciogliere, squagliare, liquefare, annacquare
- ha stemperato la vivacità dei personaggi in un discorso prolisso
- he diluted the characters' vivacity in a prolix speech
- to make less intense; to attenuate; to blunt
- 2020 September 24, “Usa, agente che uccise Breonna Taylor solo negligente, scoppia la rivolta: feriti due poliziotti [US, agent that killed Breonna Taylor only negligent, revolt breaks out: two police officers wounded]”, in la Repubblica:
- A Louisville era previsto il coprifuoco alle 21 ora locale, deciso in anticipo dal sindaco per cercare di stemperare gli animi ed evitare una notte di violenza.
- Louisville was expected to have a curfew at 9 pm local time, decided in advance by the mayor to try to attenuate the emotions and avoid a night of violence.
- (literary) to render impure; to corrupt
- Synonym: corrompere
- (rare) to blunt; to dull
- Synonym: spuntare
- (archaic) to deprive (someone) of strength or energy; to weaken
Conjugation
Conjugation of stemperàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Traditional.
Derived terms
References
- stempero in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
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