sbalestrare
Italian
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editVerb
editsbalestràre (first-person singular present sbalèstro, first-person singular past historic sbalestrài, past participle sbalestràto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive, archaic or rare) to miss (when shooting with a crossbow) [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, archaic or rare, by extension) to mess up, to flub, to blunder (to do or say the wrong thing) [auxiliary avere]
- (transitive) to fling, to hurl
- (intransitive, equestrianism) to swing one's legs out (of a horse, as a defect of gait) [auxiliary avere]
- (transitive, by extension) to swing (one's legs) out (of a person, often intentionally, or a horse, as a defect of gait)
- (transitive) to transfer (an employee) to a distant, undesirable location
- (transitive, by extension) to disperse (people) (typically to undesirable locations)
- (transitive, business) to unbalance, to destabilize (a company) financially
- (transitive, figurative) to unsettle, to disconcert, to upset
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of sbalestràre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- sbalestrare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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