spolverare
Meaning
- (transitive) to dust (remove dust)
- (transitive, usually) to dust, to sprinkle
- (figuratively, transitive) to loot, to ransack, to steal everything from
- (figuratively, transitive) to polish off, to gulp down, to wolf down
- (figuratively, transitive) to squander, to fritter away
- (figuratively, slang, transitive) to leave (a person, a vehicle, etc.) in the dust (to overtake and leave far behind)
- (figuratively, ironic, transitive) to beat, to thrash, to lick (someone)
- (transitive) to reproduce (a drawing) by pouncing (sprinkling or rubbing with powder)
- (intransitive) to dust (to clean by removing dust)
Opposite of
impolverare
Synonyms
sbacchettare
strucia’
Translations
Frequency
Hyphenated as
spol‧ve‧rà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/spol.veˈra.re/
Etymology
From s- + polvere + -are.
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