impestare
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /im.peˈsta.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: im‧pe‧stà‧re
Verb
impestàre (first-person singular present impèsto, first-person singular past historic impestài, past participle impestàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to infect (especially with syphilis or other STD)
- (transitive, figurative) to taint, to contaminate (with bad odors, fumes, etc.), to stink up
Conjugation
Related terms
Further reading
- impestare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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