rigettare
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ri- + gettare (“to throw”). Compare with Piedmontese rigeté.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]rigettàre (first-person singular present rigètto, first-person singular past historic rigettài, past participle rigettàto, auxiliary avére or (in the meaning "to resurface, to reappear") èssere)
- (transitive) to send back or away
- rigettare l'attacco nemico ― to push back the enemy attack
- 2013, F. Scott Fitzgerald, translated by Ferruccio Russo, Il Grande Gatsby [The Great Gatsby], Edizioni Scientifiche e Artistiche, page 202:
- I nostri occhi si alzarono sui roseti, il prato caldo e le alghe rigettate a riva dalla canicola.
- Our eyes lifted over the rosebeds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog days along shore.
- (literally, “Our eyes lifted over the rose gardens, the hot lawn and the seaweed sent back ashore from the dog days.”)
- (transitive) to throw again or back
- (transitive) to refute, to reject
- Synonyms: rifiutare, respingere, ributtare, non accogliere
- rigettare un credo ― to refute a creed
- rigettare un ricorso ― to reject an appeal
- (botany, transitive, intransitive) to germinate [auxiliary avere]
- Synonyms: germogliare, ributtare
- (intransitive) to resurface, to reappear [auxiliary essere]
- (transitive, informal) to vomit
- Synonyms: vomitare, rimettere, rovesciare
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of rigettàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1In the meaning "to resurface, to reappear".
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- rigettare in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- rigettare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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