spiantare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to dig out, to uproot (a plant)
  2. (archaic, transitive) to raze, to destroy (a building, a city)
  3. (figuratively, transitive) to uproot, to eliminate (vice, corruption)
  4. (figuratively, transitive) to dismantle (an operation)
  5. (figuratively, transitive) to shutter (a house)
  6. (figuratively, transitive) to ruin, to reduce to poverty

Etymology

From s- + piantare.

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