ghiacciare
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡjatˈt͡ʃa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: ghiac‧cià‧re
Verb
ghiacciàre (first-person singular present ghiàccio, first-person singular past historic ghiacciài, past participle ghiacciàto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive, also alternatively when impersonal) avére)
- (transitive, also figurative) to freeze
- (transitive, figurative) to suddenly deprive (someone) of a reaction; to leave in shock; to paralyze
- lo ghiacciò con un'occhiata
- he (or she) paralyzed him with one glance
- (intransitive, impersonal) to be freezing (of weather) [auxiliary essere or avere]
- stanotte è ghiacciato
- it was freezing tonight
- (intransitive) to ice over [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive) to get cold [auxiliary essere]
- Synonym: raffreddarsi
- se aspetti, la zuppa ghiaccia
- if you wait, the soup will get cold
- (intransitive) to become numb from the cold [auxiliary essere]
- il piede mi è ghiacciato
- my foot got numb (from the cold)
- a stare qua fuori ghiaccio
- from being out here, I'll get cold
Conjugation
1Intransitive.
2Transitive, also alternatively when impersonal.
Derived terms
References
- ghiacciare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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