smantellare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From s- + mantello (“matle”) + -are.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]smantellàre (first-person singular present smantèllo, first-person singular past historic smantellài, past participle smantellàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- (also figurative) to dismantle; to demolish
- (figurative, by extension) to destroy (an argument, reasoning, etc.)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of smantellàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- smantellare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana