inturgidire
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
inturgidìre (first-person singular present inturgidìsco, first-person singular past historic inturgidìi, past participle inturgidìto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive) avére)
- (intransitive) to swell, to swell up (especially of an organ, filling with liquid) [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive, figurative, literary) to become bloated (of someone's style) [auxiliary essere]
- (transitive) to cause to swell
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of inturgidìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Intransitive.
2Transitive.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- inturgidire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana