incancrenire

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Italian

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ cancrena +‎ -ire.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /in.kan.kreˈni.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: in‧can‧cre‧nì‧re

Verb

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incancrenìre (first-person singular present incancrenìsco, first-person singular past historic incancrenìi, past participle incancrenìto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive) avére)

  1. (intransitive, medicine) to become gangrenous [auxiliary essere]
  2. (intransitive, figurative) to take root, to become ingrained [auxiliary essere]
  3. (transitive, figurative, rare) to corrupt morally, to spoil

Conjugation

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Further reading

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