esfumar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to soften; to tone down
  2. (reflexive) to fade out; to vanish
  3. (colloquial, reflexive) to slip away (leave unnoticed)

Hyphenated as
es‧fu‧mar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/esfuˈmaɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Italian sfumare.

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