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incorniciare

to frame

verb een-kor-nee-CHAH-reh Rare

Also means

to put in a frame

Usage Note

Incorniciare literally means to put a picture in a frame (incorniciare un quadro), but it is also widely used figuratively to mean 'to frame' or 'to set within a context': la montagna incornicia il paese ('the mountain frames the village'). It conjugates regularly as a first-conjugation (-iare) verb; note the i is dropped before -i in the conjugation (incornici not incorniciì in the 2nd person singular).

Examples

"Ha incorniciato la fotografia con cura."

Natural Translation

She framed the photograph carefully.

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