guastare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to ruin, to damage
  2. (transitive) to break (to cause to stop functioning properly)
  3. (transitive) to corrupt, lead astray
  4. (transitive) to undo in order to do again, usually in a different way (typically of knitting)
  5. (obsolete, transitive) to destroy, lay waste (to)
  6. (obsolete, transitive) to mutilate
  7. (obsolete, transitive) to execute (to put to death)
  8. (intransitive, transitive) to be unpleasant or harmful

Hyphenated as
gua‧stà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡwasˈta.re/
Etymology

From Latin vastāre, influenced by Frankish *wōstijan. Compare Portuguese gastar, Spanish gastar (“to spend”).

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