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Italian: dinnervano

English translation: enfeeble, sap, weaken, agitate, perturb, upset



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Italian term or phrase:dinnervano
English translation: enfeeble, sap, weaken, agitate, perturb, upset
Entered by:Enza Longo
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Art/Literary - Music / music
Italian term or phrase: dinnervano
An article on a conductor:

"Il xxxx si è rivelato un temperamento incline ad una cifra interpretativa accessa e vigorosa che, incardinata sull'obbiettivo d'un esatta e chiara scansione ritmica, non manca di esaltare la passione, il soggettivo entusiasmo, il coinvolgimento dell'esecutore nella viva sostanza dell'opera d'arte in divenire: al di là di quelle ipotetiche e accademiche prassi filologiche alla moda che DINNERVANO e ammorbano l'essere e le forme delle opere del passato."

What a mouthful!
Sarah Ponting
Italy
Local time: 14:03
enfeeble, sap, weaken, agitate, perturb, upset
Explanation:
quite a few options, but in your context I would chose one of the first three.
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Enza Longo
Canada
Local time: 08:03
Note from asker to answerer
Thanks a lot.

Sarah
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2 enfeeble, sap, weaken, agitate, perturb, upset
Enza Longo
4 +1snervare
Paola Ludovici MacQuarrie
4undermine/devitalize/bleed/drain/manducci
2 +2enervate
Elisabeth Ghysels


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
snervare


Explanation:
as far as my dictionary and Google can tell, the verb is an invention of your author

Ho trovato "denervare" in cucina:
Pecora in umido - Girando - [ Translate this page ]
... Preparazione: Disossare il coscio di pecora tagliandolo a piccoli pezzi, facendo
ben attenzione a scartare non solo tutte le parti grasse, ma anche a denervare ...
www.girando.it/cucina/pecorainumido.htm - 14k - Cached - Similar pages

dinervare:


Esito della ricerca nel lemmario



Il lemma compare un' unica volta nel Vocabolario.

DINERVARE.
vedi SNERVARE . Lat. enervare.
Medit. arb. cr. Per lo quale noi possiamo sconfiggere, e dinervare tutte le violenti fortezze de' combattitori nostri nemici.
Com. Par. 9. Lascia tenere in questa isola, che dinerva li forti animi, e non seguita i primi nutrimenti del suo natal sito.

Oltre all'itanghliano del marketing, mi fanno imbestialire gli scrittori o scribacchini che vogliono impressionare la platea di comuni mortali, senza nemmeno fare sforzi di precisione.

E dal "dinnervare" scade nello pseudocolloquiale con "ammorbare"

What else can I say?

Good luck

paola l m




Paola Ludovici MacQuarrie
Canada
Local time: 09:03
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
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agree caterina fuda
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +2
enervate


Explanation:
at least, if it is "dinervano"; extremely rare anyway.
Greetings,

Nikolaus


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Elisabeth Ghysels
Belgium
Local time: 14:03
PRO pts in category: 3

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agree manducci
12 hrs

agree gmel117608
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
enfeeble, sap, weaken, agitate, perturb, upset


Explanation:
quite a few options, but in your context I would chose one of the first three.

Enza Longo
Canada
Local time: 08:03
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Note from asker to answerer
Thanks a lot.

Sarah

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Paola Guardini
11 hrs

agree manducci: prefer 'sap'
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
undermine/devitalize/bleed/drain/


Explanation:
Just some more possibilities to add to an already valid list...
Of the four above, I think I prefer the first two - given the context.

manducci
Italy
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