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Italian
Etymology
From a- + fame + -are.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /af.faˈma.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: af‧fa‧mà‧re
Verb
affamàre (first-person singular present affàmo, first-person singular past historic affamài, past participle affamàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to starve (to cause to starve, e.g. due to a siege)
- (transitive, figurative) to impoverish
- (intransitive) to starve
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Further reading
- affamare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- affamare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
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