raddoppiare
Italian
Pronunciation
Verb
raddoppiàre (first-person singular present raddóppio, first-person singular past historic raddoppiài, past participle raddoppiàto, auxiliary (transitive or intransitive) avére or (also in the intransitive meanings "to double, to intensify") èssere)
- (transitive) to double, redouble
- (transitive) to duplicate
- (transitive, figurative) to increase, to intensify
- (transitive, linguistics) to reduplicate
- (transitive, music) to double (a note) (to assign a note to two or more parts)
- (transitive, sports) to double (an opponent) (to assign two players to the same opponent)
- (intransitive) to double [auxiliary essere or avere]
- (intransitive, figurative) to increase in strength, to intensify (e.g. of the wind) [auxiliary essere or avere]
- (intransitive, billiards) to score a double shot [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, fencing) to make a double strike (on an opponent) [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, soccer) to score a second goal [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, horseriding) to gallop with the two front legs together, followed by the hindquarters [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
Conjugation of raddoppiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Transitive or intransitive.
2Also in the intransitive meanings "to double, to intensify".
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- Italian 4-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/are
- Rhymes:Italian/are/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian verbs
- Italian verbs ending in -are
- Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary
- Italian verbs taking essere as auxiliary
- Italian transitive verbs
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