incrudelire
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]incrudelìre (first-person singular present incrudelìsco, first-person singular past historic incrudelìi, past participle incrudelìto, auxiliary (transitive, also intransitive in the sense "to act cruelly or violently") avére or (intransitive in the sense "to become cruel") èssere)
- (transitive, uncommon) to make cruel or pitiless
- (transitive, archaic) to harden (metal)
- Synonym: incrudire
- (transitive, archaic, figurative) to make more harsh or severe
- Synonyms: incrudire, rincrudire
- (intransitive) to become (more) cruel or pitiless [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive) to commit cruel acts, to act violently, to rage [with su ‘against’] [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, figurative, literary) to act cruelly or violently (of a disease, fate, etc.) [with su ‘towards’] [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of incrudelìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Transitive, also intransitive in the sense "to act cruelly or violently".
2Intransitive in the sense "to become cruel".
Further reading
[edit]- incrudelire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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