Italian

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /in.kaˈstra.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: in‧ca‧strà‧re

Verb

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incastràre (first-person singular present incàstro, first-person singular past historic incastrài, past participle incastràto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to insert
  2. (transitive) to drive (a nail)
  3. (transitive) to embed
  4. (transitive) to fix (to something)
  5. (transitive) to engrain
  6. (transitive) to frame (a person to appear guilty)
  7. (intransitive) to fit well, to fit precisely (in something) [auxiliary avere]

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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

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