smorzare

Meaning

  1. (also, figuratively, transitive) to put out, to extinguish, to quench (a fire, hunger, thirst, enthusiasm, etc.)
  2. (transitive) to turn off (a light)
  3. (also, transitive) to dampen, to attenuate
  4. (transitive) to soften, tone down, muffle, dim, lower, deaden
  5. (transitive) to bunt (the ball)

Hyphenated as
smor‧zà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/zmorˈt͡sa.re/
Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *exmortiāre, from mortuus (“dead”).

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