imbruttire
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From im- + brutto (“ugly”) + -ire.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
imbruttìre (first-person singular present imbruttìsco, first-person singular past historic imbruttìi, past participle imbruttìto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to make ugly [auxiliary avere]
- (transitive, Rome) to glare at (someone) askance (with a hostile or degrading look) [auxiliary avere]
- Che me sta' a 'mbruttì?
- What are you looking at?
- (literally, “Are you glaring at me?”)
- (intransitive) to become ugly [auxiliary essere]
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of imbruttìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Transitive.
2Intransitive.
Further reading edit
- imbruttire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana