autoimmolarsi
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Italian
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[edit]autoimmolàrsi (first-person singular present mi autoimmòlo, first-person singular past historic mi autoimmolài, past participle autoimmolàto)
- to immolate oneself
- Synonym: immolarsi
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Secondo un testimone oculare, mentre si autoimmolava Bouazizi avrebbe gridato, a nessuno in particolare e a tutti: «Come pensate che io possa guadagnarmi da vivere?».
- According to a bystander, at the moment of his self-immolation, Bouazizi shouted—to nobody in particular and to everyone at once—"How do you expect me to make a living?"
- (literally, “According to an eyewitness, while he was immolating himself Bouazizi yelled, to no one in particular and to everyone: "How do you think that I can make a living?"”)