spolverare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to dust (remove dust)
  2. (transitive, usually) to dust, to sprinkle
  3. (figuratively, transitive) to loot, to ransack, to steal everything from
  4. (figuratively, transitive) to polish off, to gulp down, to wolf down
  5. (figuratively, transitive) to squander, to fritter away
  6. (figuratively, slang, transitive) to leave (a person, a vehicle, etc.) in the dust (to overtake and leave far behind)
  7. (figuratively, ironic, transitive) to beat, to thrash, to lick (someone)
  8. (transitive) to reproduce (a drawing) by pouncing (sprinkling or rubbing with powder)
  9. (intransitive) to dust (to clean by removing dust)

Opposite of
impolverare
Translations

Frequency

38k
Hyphenated as
spol‧ve‧rà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/spol.veˈra.re/
Etymology

From s- + polvere + -are.

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