Italian

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Etymology

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From s- +‎ balestra +‎ -are.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /zba.leˈstra.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: sba‧le‧strà‧re

Verb

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sbalestràre (first-person singular present sbalèstro, first-person singular past historic sbalestrài, past participle sbalestràto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive, archaic or rare) to miss (when shooting with a crossbow) [auxiliary avere]
  2. (intransitive, archaic or rare, by extension) to mess up, to flub, to blunder (to do or say the wrong thing) [auxiliary avere]
  3. (transitive) to fling, to hurl
  4. (intransitive, equestrianism) to swing one's legs out (of a horse, as a defect of gait) [auxiliary avere]
  5. (transitive, by extension) to swing (one's legs) out (of a person, often intentionally, or a horse, as a defect of gait)
  6. (transitive) to transfer (an employee) to a distant, undesirable location
  7. (transitive, by extension) to disperse (people) (typically to undesirable locations)
  8. (transitive, business) to unbalance, to destabilize (a company) financially
  9. (transitive, figurative) to unsettle, to disconcert, to upset

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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

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