spiantare
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]spiantàre (first-person singular present spiànto, first-person singular past historic spiantài, past participle spiantàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to dig out, to uproot (a plant)
- (archaic) to raze, to destroy (a building, a city)
- (figurative) to uproot, to eliminate (vice, corruption)
- (figurative) to dismantle (an operation)
- (figurative) to shutter (a house)
- (figurative) to ruin, to reduce to poverty
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of spiantàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)