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dilagante

spreading, rampant

adjective dee-lah-GAHN-teh Rare
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Usage Note

Dilagante is the present participle of dilagare (to spread, to overflow) used as an adjective. It describes something rapidly spreading and hard to contain — corruzione dilagante (rampant corruption), una moda dilagante (a rampant trend). The seed lists it as a verb, but dilagante is overwhelmingly used as an adjective in corpus data; the base verb is dilagare.

Examples

"La criminalità dilagante preoccupava i residenti."

Natural Translation

The rampant crime was worrying the residents.

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