affondare.
to sink (to submerge into a liquid; to cause to be submerged into a liquid)
Meaning & usage
to sink (to submerge into a liquid; to cause to be submerged into a liquid)
to sink, to dig, to plunge
affondò avidamente i denti nella carne
to deepen by digging
to sink, to founder
la nave affondò in pochi minuti
to go broke, to be ruined
to sink (into chaos, vice, etc.)
Where this word comes from
From Vulgar Latin *affundāre, from Latin ad + fundus (“bottom”). By surface analysis, a- + fondo + -are.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.