smentire
Italian
Etymology
From s- + mentire. Compare Piedmontese smentì; French démentir; Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese desmentir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zmenˈti.re/
- Rhymes: -ire
- Hyphenation: smen‧tì‧re
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Verb
smentìre (first-person singular present smentìsco, first-person singular past historic smentìi, past participle smentìto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to deny
- Synonyms: contraddire, sbugiardare
- il governo ha smentito il rapporto
- the government denied the report
- to refute, to disprove
- Synonym: sconfessare
- smentire un alibi ― to refute an alibi
- to belie
- i fatti smentiscono la sua testimonianza
- the facts belie your testimony
Conjugation
Conjugation of smentìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
Further reading
- smentire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana