Italian-English translations for affondare

sink
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If you sail under false colours this directive will sink you. Se pirati solcano i mari sotto le mentite spoglie di gentiluomini, questa direttiva li farà affondare. We are all in the same boat: if the boat sinks, no one will be saved. Ci troviamo tutti sulla stessa barca: se la barca dovesse affondare, nessuno si salverà. Was it factored in to the calculations that one or other ship might sink? Non vi sarà forse dietro tutto questo un calcolo, nell’eventualità che una delle navi possa affondare?
dig
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They dug an eight-foot ditch along the side of the roadIn the wintertime, heavy truck tires dig into the road, forming potholesIf the plane cant pull out of the dive it is in, itll dig a hole in the ground

drop
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Put three drops of oil into the mixtureOn one side of the road was a 50-foot dropThat was a long drop, but fortunately I didnt break any bones
founder
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Such an historic reunification should not founder because Heads of Government behave in a wholly unacceptable manner, throwing their weight around and refusing to accept an adult outcome. Una riunificazione storica come questa non deve affondare perché i capi di governo si comportano in modo del tutto inaccettabile, facendo i prepotenti e rifiutando di accettare un risultato maturo. the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberga founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types
plunge
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to plunge the body into waterto plunge a dagger into the breast; to plunge a nation into warhe plunged into the river