stravedere
Italian
Etymology
From stra- + vedere (“to see”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stra.veˈde.re/
- Rhymes: -ere
- Hyphenation: stra‧ve‧dé‧re
Verb
stravedére (first-person singular present stravédo, first-person singular past historic stravìdi, past participle stravedùto, first-person singular future stravedrò, auxiliary avére)
- (ambitransitive) to see something that isn't there; to missee; to see things [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, informal) to love or admire to the point that one's judgement is clouded; to be crazy about [with per ‘someone’]
- Synonym: (literary) travedere
- 2020, Barack Obama, translated by Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, and Giuseppe Maugeri, Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Axe e Plouffe stravedevano entrambi per Tim Kaine e, come me, sapevano bene che si sarebbe inserito perfettamente nell'amministrazione Obama.
- Both Axe and Plouffe were crazy about Tim Kaine and, like me, knew that he would fit in perfectly in the Obama administration.
Conjugation
Conjugation of stravedére (-ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Further reading
- stravedere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana