spanciare

Italian

Etymology

From s- +‎ pancia +‎ -are.

Verb

spanciàre (first-person singular present spàncio, first-person singular past historic spanciài, past participle spanciàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to disembowel
  2. (transitive, aeronautics) to cause (a plane) to nosedive
  3. (intransitive) to belly flop [auxiliary avere]
  4. (intransitive, slang) to bulge out [auxiliary avere]
  5. (intransitive, aeronautics) to nosedive [auxiliary avere]

Conjugation

Further reading

  • spanciare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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