esmorteir
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Pronunciation
Verb
esmorteir (first-person singular present esmorteeixo, past participle esmorteït)
- to muffle
- 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 6, in La pell freda, La Campana:
- El soroll de la maquinària ens arribava esmorteït, un carrisqueig de pèndol, més fort quan els vagons dels focus circulaven just damunt nostre, més lleu quan s'allunyaven.
- The sound of the machinery came to us muffled — the screeching of a pendulum: stronger when the focus carriages passed right overhead, less strong when they moved away.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of esmorteir (third conjugation with -eix- infix)
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