scarnire
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]scarnìre (first-person singular present scarnìsco, first-person singular past historic scarnìi, past participle scarnìto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, also bookbinding, tanning) to strip the flesh off of
- Synonym: scarnificare
- (transitive, uncommon) to emaciate
- (transitive, figurative) to make pithy (a piece of writing, one's style, etc.)
- (transitive) to skive
- (transitive) to strip to the bare bones
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of scarnìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- scarnire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana