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Italian
Etymology
From ri- + fiorire.
Verb
rifiorìre (first-person singular present rifiorìsco, first-person singular past historic rifiorìi, past participle rifiorìto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive, also intransitive in the literal sense "to bloom again") avére)
- (intransitive) to blossom again, to bloom again, to reflower
- (intransitive, figurative) to flourish again, to improve
- (intransitive) to appear again (of a stain)
- (transitive, literary) to cause to bloom again
- (transitive) to refine, to retouch (a work of art)
- (transitive) to regravel (a road)
- (transitive) to shore up (a seawall) with new rocks
Conjugation
Further reading
- rifiorire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana