scarnire
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skarˈni.re/
- Rhymes: -ire
- Hyphenation: scar‧nì‧re
Verb
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
Conjugation of scarnìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
Further reading
- scarnire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana