affondare
sink
verb ahf-fohn-DAH-reh Less Common
Origin: from a- + fondo 'bottom'
Also means
thrust
Usage Note
Affondare means to sink, used both for ships going down and transitively for sinking something. It also means to plunge or thrust, as in affondare il coltello ('to drive in the knife'). It is built on fondo ('bottom'), so literally 'to send to the bottom'.
Examples
"La nave rischia di affondare."
Natural Translation
The ship risks sinking.
Literal Translation
The ship risks of sink.

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