Italian edit

Etymology edit

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Pronunciation edit

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

Verb edit

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]

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Further reading edit

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

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