scavalcare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From s- + cavalcare (“to ride”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]scavalcàre (first-person singular present scavàlco, first-person singular past historic scavalcài, past participle scavalcàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to unsaddle (to throw from the saddle)
- (transitive) to pass over; to overcome (an obstacle, difficulty, etc.)
- (transitive) to overtake; to climb over; to leapfrog
- to ignore or disobey a hierarchy or chain of command
- ho scavalcato il capufficio e sono andato dal direttore
- I climbed over the head clerk and went straight for the manager
- to get a better-paid or more prestigious job position
- è riuscito a scavalcare i colleghi più anziani
- he was able to overtake his more elderly colleagues
- to ignore or disobey a hierarchy or chain of command
- (transitive, politics) to adopt views further to the extreme of their party; to become polarized (of a politician, etc.)
- scavalcare il partito a sinistra
- to become polarized further to the left of the party
- (intransitive, archaic) to dismount (from a horse) [with da] [auxiliary essere]
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of scavalcàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Transitive.
2Intransitive.
Derived terms
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- Italian 4-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/are
- Rhymes:Italian/are/4 syllables
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