| Italian > English | |
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| guasto | |
| 1. adj. spoilt, damaged, ruined | |
| 2. adj. rotten, bad, gone bad | |
| 3. adj. broken, out of order | |
| 4. n. breakdown, failure, fault | |
| Il guasto è nel motore. - The fault is in the engine. | |
| 5. n. damage | |
| guastare | |
| 1. v. (transitive, obsolete) to destroy, lay waste (to) | |
| 2. v. (transitive, obsolete) to mutilate | |
| 3. v. (transitive, obsolete) to execute (to put to death) | |
| Pregò colui che a guastare il menava - He begged the one who was carrying him to be executed | |
| 4. v. (transitive, literally and figurative) to ruin | |
| La piena ha guastato il ponte. - The flood has ruined the bridge. | |
| La notizia ci guastò la festa. - The news spoiled the party for us. | |
| 5. v. to break (to cause to stop functioning (or) being serviceable) | |
| I ragazzi hanno guastato tutte le sedie del salotto. - The boys broke all the chairs in the living room. | |
| 6. v. to damage | |
| I cibi grassi guastano lo stomaco. - Fatty foods damage the stomach. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, of foodstuffs) to cause to or go bad | |
| Guasterete il vino non mettendovi l'olio. - If you don't put the oil in, you'll make the wine go bad. | |
| 8. v. (transitive,) to corrupt, lead astray | |
| 9. v. to undo (in order to do again, (usually) in a different way) | |
| Ogni notte, Penelope guastava parte della tela che aveva tessuto durante il giorno. - Each night, Penelope was undoing part of the shroud she'd been weaving during the day. | |
| Italian > Italian | |
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| guasto | |
| 1. agg. che è inutilizzabile |  |
| 2. agg. (di cibo) che è andato a male | |
| 3. sost. effetto di deterioramento di un oggetto | |
| 4. verb. prima persona singolare dell'indicativo presente di guastare | |
