impazzire
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
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Further reading edit
- impazzire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana