sventagliare

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Italian

Etymology

From s- +‎ ventaglio +‎ -are.

Verb

sventagliàre (first-person singular present sventàglio, first-person singular past historic sventagliài, past participle sventagliàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to fan
  2. (by extension) to wave (e.g. one's hand to shoo away flies; money in someone's face; etc.)
  3. (by extension) to wag (its tail, of a dog)
  4. to fan out, to spread
  5. (uncommon) to machine gun (a target); to fire (a repeated burst of automatic weapon fire)

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Further reading

  • sventagliare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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