Italian

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Etymology

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From inflazione +‎ -are.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /in.flat.t͡sjoˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: in‧fla‧zio‧nà‧re

Verb

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inflazionàre (first-person singular present inflazióno, first-person singular past historic inflazionài, past participle inflazionàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, economics) to inflate
  2. (transitive, figurative) to make hackneyed, to overuse (e.g. an expression)

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • inflazionare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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