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impallinare

to riddle with bullets

verb eem-pahl-lee-NAH-reh Rare

Also means

to obsess over

Usage Note

Impallinare literally means to hit someone with pellets (pallini) from a shotgun, but colloquially it means to pester or fixate on something: mi ha impallinato con le sue domande ('he pestered me endlessly with his questions'). The colloquial sense is very common in spoken Italian. It conjugates regularly as a first-conjugation (-are) verb.

Examples

"Il cacciatore ha impallinato la lepre."

Natural Translation

The hunter riddled the hare with shot.

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