spolverare
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[edit]spolveràre (first-person singular present spólvero, first-person singular past historic spolverài, past participle spolveràto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to dust (remove dust)
- Antonym: impolverare
- (transitive, cooking, etc.) to dust, to sprinkle
- (transitive, figurative) to loot, to ransack, to steal everything from
- (transitive, figurative) to polish off, to gulp down, to wolf down
- Synonym: spazzolare
- (transitive, figurative) to squander, to fritter away
- (transitive, figurative, slang) to leave (a person, a vehicle, etc.) in the dust (to overtake and leave far behind)
- (transitive, figurative, ironic) to beat, to thrash, to lick (someone)
- (transitive, drawing) to reproduce (a drawing) by pouncing (sprinkling or rubbing with powder)
- (intransitive) to dust (to clean by removing dust) [auxiliary avere]
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[edit] Conjugation of spolveràre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
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