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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French esmarrir, from marir (“to frustrate, to sadden”), from Frankish *marrijan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zmarˈri.re/
- Rhymes: -ire
- Hyphenation: smar‧rì‧re
Verb
smarrìre (first-person singular present smarrìsco, first-person singular past historic smarrìi, past participle smarrìto, auxiliary (transitive, or alternatively when intransitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to lose
- (transitive) to stray from (a path)
- (intransitive, archaic or Tuscan) to fade, to discolor
- (intransitive, poetic, figurative) to turn pale, to blanch
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