incastrare
Italian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.kasˈtra.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: in‧ca‧strà‧re
Verb
incastràre (first-person singular present incàstro, first-person singular past historic incastrài, past participle incastràto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to insert
- (transitive) to drive (a nail)
- (transitive) to embed
- (transitive) to fix (to something)
- (transitive) to engrain
- (transitive) to frame (a person to appear guilty)
- (intransitive) to fit well, to fit precisely (in something) [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
Conjugation of incastràre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
- incastramento
- incastrarsi
- incastrato
- incastratrice
- incastro
Further reading
- incastrare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana