abbrutire
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
abbrutìre (first-person singular present abbrutìsco, first-person singular past historic abbrutìi, past participle abbrutìto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to brutalize
- (transitive) to exhaust; to degrade; to stultify
- (intransitive) to be brutalized, to become brutish [+ in (object) = due to] [auxiliary essere]
Usage notes edit
- Do not confuse with abbruttire (“to make ugly, to deface”), from brutto (“ugly”).
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of abbrutìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Transitive.
2Intransitive.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- abbrutire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana