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Czech
Pronunciation
Verb
zhovadit pf
- (rare, derogatory) to imbrute, to brutalise
- 1863, Václav Zelený, tr. TB Macaulay Dějiny anglické, Díl čtvrtý, I.L. Kober, page 444:
Anglická politika, pravil, prý je tak úplně zhovadila, že prý se mohou sotva nazývati tvory lidskými.- The English policy, he said, had so completely brutalised them, that they could hardly be called human beings. (Chapter XV, III.522–523)
Conjugation
Conjugation
| The verb zhovadit does not have present tense and the present forms are used to express future only. |
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Further reading
- “zhovaditi”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “zhovaditi”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989