impazzire
Italian
Etymology
From im- + pazzo (“crazy, mad”) + -ire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /im.patˈt͡si.re/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ire
- Hyphenation: im‧paz‧zì‧re
Verb
impazzìre (first-person singular present impazzìsco, first-person singular past historic impazzìi, past participle impazzìto, auxiliary èssere)
- (intransitive) to go mad, to go crazy
- Synonym: ammattire
- (intransitive, cooking) to curdle (usually of mayonnaise)
- (intransitive, figurative) to let loose (e.g. of a festival such as Carnival)
- (intransitive, figurative) to go haywire (of tools, devices, mechanisms, etc.)
Conjugation
Conjugation of impazzìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- impazzire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana