impazzire
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From im- + pazzo (“crazy, mad”) + -ire.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]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
[edit] Conjugation of impazzìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- impazzire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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- Italian terms prefixed with im-
- Italian terms suffixed with -ire
- Italian 4-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/ire
- Rhymes:Italian/ire/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
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- Italian verbs ending in -ire
- Italian verbs taking essere as auxiliary
- Italian intransitive verbs
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