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1 lastricato
lastricato agg. paved // di buone intenzioni è lastricato l'inferno, (prov.) the road to hell is paved with good intentions◆ s.m. (stone) paving, (stone) pavement.* * *[lastri'kato] 1.participio passato lastricare2. 3.sostantivo maschile pavement, paving; (con lastre di pietra) flagging* * *lastricato/lastri'kato/II aggettivo[ strada] pavedIII sostantivo m.pavement, paving; (con lastre di pietra) flagging. -
2 indebolire
v/t and v/i weaken* * *indebolire v.tr.1 to weaken, to enfeeble, to debilitate: la lunga malattia l'ha molto indebolito, the long illness has weakened him a lot (o has taken a lot out of him)2 (fig.) to weaken, to lessen, to reduce, to undermine; (affari, mercato) to depress: indebolire la resistenza, to weaken (o to undermine o to sap) one's powers of endurance; indebolire il volume degli affari, to depress the turnover3 (mecc., chim.) to weaken4 (fot.) to reduce.◘ indebolirsi v.intr.pron.1 to weaken, to grow* weak (er), to grow* feeble (r), to flag, to lose* one's strength: le sue forze s'indebolivano, his strength was flagging; gli si è indebolita la vista, his eyesight has grown weaker; la situazione finanziaria si è indebolita, the financial situation has weakened; la sua memoria si indebolisce, his memory is failing; il vento si indebolisce, the wind is dropping2 (di suoni, colori) to fade.* * *[indebo'lire]1. vt2. vi* * *[indebo'lire] 1.verbo transitivo to weaken [udito, vista, influenza, nemico, mercato]; to undermine [autorità, resistenza]2.verbo pronominale indebolirsi [economia, muscoli, paese, valuta] to weaken; [persona, squadra] to grow* weak; [ vista] to grow* dim, to dim, to fail; [ udito] to fail; [autorità, influenza] to diminish* * *indebolire/indebo'lire/ [102]to weaken [udito, vista, influenza, nemico, mercato]; to undermine [autorità, resistenza]II indebolirsi verbo pronominale -
3 languire
languish* * *languire v. intr.1 to languish (with sthg.); (struggersi) to pine (with, for sthg.): languire per la fame, la sete, to languish with hunger, thirst; languire in prigione, to languish in prison; languire nella miseria, to languish in poverty; languire d'amore per qlcu., to pine with love for s.o.; languire di nostalgia, to pine for home2 (scemare) to languish, to slacken, to flag, to drag; (comm.) to slack, to be slack: in quella commedia l'azione langue, the action of that play drags; la conversazione langue, the conversation is flagging; non lasciar languire la conversazione!, keep the conversation going!; gli affari languono, business is slack3 (di fiori) to droop4 (di luce) to fade.* * *[lan'gwire]1) (essere privo di energia) [ persona] to languish; [ economia] to be* sluggish; [ conversazione] to languish, to flag; [ luce] to grow* dim, to grow* faint2) (struggersi) to languish, to pinelanguire d'amore per qcn. — to languish for sb., to be pining with love for sb
* * *languire/lan'gwire/ [102](aus. avere)1 (essere privo di energia) [ persona] to languish; [ economia] to be* sluggish; [ conversazione] to languish, to flag; [ luce] to grow* dim, to grow* faint; languire in prigione to languish in prison2 (struggersi) to languish, to pine; languire d'amore per qcn. to languish for sb., to be pining with love for sb.
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