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B2 — Upper Intermediate🎨 Colors

Tingere di rosso

To paint red / to stain red

Literal Translation

"To dye red"

What it means

Literally to colour something red; figuratively, to mark a period with violence or bloodshed.

Example in context

"La battaglia ha tinto di rosso quelle terre."

"The battle stained those lands red."

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