spegnere

Significado (Inglés)

  1. (traditional, transitive) to turn off (a light, motor, television, etc.)
  2. (traditional, transitive) to extinguish, to put out (a fire, candle, etc.)
  3. (figuratively, traditional, transitive) to extinguish (a controversy, debt, one's anger, etc.)
  4. (traditional, transitive) to quench (thirst)

Opuesto a
accendere
Frecuencia

B2
Con guion como
spé‧gne‧re
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈspeɲ.ɲe.re/
Etimología (Inglés)

Inherited from Latin expingere, from ex- (“out”) + pingo (“paint”), with a semantic change from 'remove colour/color' to 'fade, dim', probably influenced by extingere.

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