Italian > English | |
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 | |
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 | |