Italian edit

Etymology edit

From s- +‎ piantare.

Verb edit

spiantàre (first-person singular present spiànto, first-person singular past historic spiantài, past participle spiantàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to dig out, to uproot (a plant)
  2. (archaic) to raze, to destroy (a building, a city)
  3. (figurative) to uproot, to eliminate (vice, corruption)
  4. (figurative) to dismantle (an operation)
  5. (figurative) to shutter (a house)
  6. (figurative) to ruin, to reduce to poverty

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