adusto
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editadusto (feminine adusta, masculine plural adusti, feminine plural aduste)
- scorched; parched (of land)
- 1823, Francesco M. Franceschinis, L’Atenaide, volume 2, tipografia della Minerva, page 6:
- Rombo d’aria improvviso la percuote, / E vapor rosso copre i campi adusti;
- A roar in the air strikes suddenly, / And red vapour covers the scorched fields;
- 1823, Francesco M. Franceschinis, L’Atenaide, volume 2, tipografia della Minerva, page 6:
- wizened (lean and wrinkled by age or illness)
- 2009, Lev Tolstoy, translated by Loretta Loi, Guerra e pace, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, page 324:
- «È il diavolo che li ha portati!» pensava, mentre Tichon l’aiutava a infilare la camicia da notte sul suo corpo adusto di vecchio, coperto sul petto di peli grigi.
- “It is the devil who took them!” he though, while Tichon helped him put on a nightgown on his old, wizened body, covered by grey hair on the chest.
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editadusto (feminine adusta, masculine plural adustos, feminine plural adustas)
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edit- “adusto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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