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ricoprire — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • heap noun A pile of things gathered or thrown together.
  • interrupt verb To break in on someone who is speaking or on an ongoing action.
  • render verb To cause something to become a certain way.
  • smear verb To spread a soft or sticky substance across a surface, often messily.
  • smother verb To cover something so completely that it cannot get air, cutting off its breathing or, for a fire, its oxygen.
  • strew verb To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
  • veneer noun A thin decorative layer of a finer material, usually wood, glued over a cheaper surface underneath.

Senses

ricoprire is used for these senses in English:

  • heap (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  • interrupt (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
  • render (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
  • smear (transitive) To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
  • smother (transitive, cooking) To cook in a close dish.
  • strew (dated, except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
  • veneer (transitive, woodworking) To apply veneer to.

heap — full definition

  1. noun A pile of things gathered or thrown together.
  2. noun Informal: a large amount or number of something.
  3. verb To pile something up, or to give something in large amounts.

interrupt — full definition

  1. verb To break in on someone who is speaking or on an ongoing action.
  2. noun Computing: a signal that makes a computer pause its current task to deal with something more urgent.

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