sventagliare
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]sventagliàre (first-person singular present sventàglio, first-person singular past historic sventagliài, past participle sventagliàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to fan
- (by extension) to wave (e.g. one's hand to shoo away flies; money in someone's face; etc.)
- (by extension) to wag (its tail, of a dog)
- to fan out, to spread
- (uncommon) to machine gun (a target); to fire (a repeated burst of automatic weapon fire)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of sventagliàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- sventagliare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana