svelenire

Italian

Etymology

From s- + veleno + -ire.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zve.leˈni.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: sve‧le‧nì‧re

Verb

svelenìre (first-person singular present svelenìsco, first-person singular past historic svelenìi, past participle svelenìto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, uncommon) to detoxify or remove poison from (e.g. the teeth of a viper, polluted air)
  2. (transitive, figurative) to mitigate, to defuse, to take the acrimony out of (a situation)
  3. (transitive, figurative) to pacify (someone)

Conjugation

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