Italian | English |
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sire noun {m} | sire [sires](lord, master, or person in authority) |
sirena noun {f} | mermaid [mermaids](mythological woman with a fish’s tail) |
sirenetta noun {f} | nymph [nymphs](young girl who may inspire lust) |
acquisire verb | acquire [acquired, acquiring, acquires](to get) gain [gained, gaining, gains](acquire) take on(To acquire, bring in, or introduce) take over(to buy out) |
ammansire verb | tame [tamed, taming, tames](to make something tame) |
appassire verb | sweat [sweated, sweating, sweats](transitive: to cook slowly without browning) wilt [wilted, wilting, wilts](to droop) wither [withered, withering, withers]((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up) |
arrossire verb | blush [blushed, blushing, blushes](to redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment) flush [flushed, flushing, flushes](to become suffused with reddish color) |
canto della sirena noun {m} | siren song(enticing but dangerous appeal) |
censire verb | census(collect a census) |
impreziosire verb | embellish [embellished, embellishing, embellishes](to make more beautiful and attractive) refine [refined, refining, refines](to affect nicety or subtlety in thought or language) |
innervosire verb | flurry [flurried, flurrying, flurries](agitate) get one's knickers in a twist(to become overwrought or unnecessarily upset over a trivial matter) upset [upset, upsetting, upsets](make (a person) angry, distressed or unhappy) vex [vexed, vexing, vexes](to annoy) |
recensire verb | review [reviewed, reviewing, reviews](to write a review) |
requisire verb | commandeer [commandeered, commandeering, commandeers](to seize for military use) impound [impounded, impounding, impounds](to hold in the custody of a court or its delegate) impress [impressed, impressing, impresses](seize or confiscate (property) by force) requisition [requisitioned, requisitioning, requisitions](to demand something) |
suono di sirena noun {m} | wail [wails](emergency vehicle siren) |
tossire verb | cough [coughed, coughing, coughs](make a noise like a cough) hack [hacked, hacking, hacks](to cough noisily) |