Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ri.aˈver.si/
  • Rhymes: -ersi
  • Hyphenation: ri‧a‧vér‧si

Verb edit

riavérsi (first-person singular present mi riò, first-person singular past historic mi rièbbi, past participle riavùtosi, first-person singular subjunctive mi riàbbia, second-person singular imperative riàbbiati)

  1. reflexive of riavere
  2. to come around (regain consciousness)
    Synonym: rinvenire
  3. to recover; to rebound
    Synonyms: ricuperare, rifarsi
    • 1990, Ernest Hemingway, translated by Ettore Capriolo, Fiesta [The Sun Also Rises], Mondadori:
      Si era sposato per riaversi dalle sgradevoli esperienze che aveva avuto al college, e Frances se lo era preso quando tentava di riaversi dalla scoperta di non essere stato tutto per la prima moglie.
      He had married on the rebound from the rotten time he had in college, and Frances took him on the rebound from his discovery that he had not been everything to his first wife.
      (literally, “He got married to rebound from the unpleasant experiences that he had had in college, and Frances took him for herself when he was trying to recover from the discovery of not having been everything for his first wife.”)

Conjugation edit

Further reading edit

riaversi in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

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