ostruire

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obstruere, with change of conjugation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /o.struˈi.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: o‧stru‧ì‧re

Verb

ostruìre (first-person singular present ostruìsco, first-person singular past historic ostruìi, past participle ostruìto, auxiliary avére)

  1. to obstruct, to block (a passage, a road, an artery in the human body, etc.)

Conjugation

Further reading

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