scavalcare
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
scavalcare
- (transitive) to unsaddle (throw from the saddle)
- (transitive) to pass over; to overcome (an obstacle, difficulty, etc.)
- (transitive) to overtake; to climb over; to leapfrog
- to ignore or disobey a hierarchy or chain of command
- ho scavalcato il capufficio e sono andato dal direttore
- I climbed over the head clerk and went straight for the manager
- to get a better-paid or more prestigious job position
- è riuscito a scavalcare i colleghi più anziani
- he was able to overtake his more elderly colleagues
- to ignore or disobey a hierarchy or chain of command
- (transitive, politics) (of a politician, etc.) to adopt views further to the extreme of their party; to become polarized
- scavalcare il partito a sinistra
- to become polarized further to the left of the party
- (intransitive, archaic) to get off (a horse)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of scavalcare