smagare

Italian

Verb

smagàre (first-person singular present smàgo, first-person singular past historic smagài, past participle smagàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to distract (someone) [with da ‘from’]
  2. (literary) to dismay, to disenchant, to disappoint
    • 1294, Dante, chapter XII, in La Vita Nuova:
      Dille: «Madonna, lo suo core è stato / con sì fermata fede, / che 'n voi servir l'ha 'mpronto onne pensero: / tosto fu vostro, e mai non s'è smagato».
      Tell her: “My lady, this one’s heart has stayed / so true and undeterred, / to serve you each thought pressed him with its seal: / from his first years he was yours; he’s never strayed.”
  3. (archaic) to weaken, to diminish

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