Meaning
unleash, send out
- To unchain or unleash a dog from its leash (guinzaglio)
- To dispatch or deploy people, investigators, or agents to hunt, search, or track down someone
In a sentence
Il direttore del giornale ha sguinzagliato i suoi migliori cronisti sulla vicenda.
The newspaper editor unleashed his best reporters on the story.
Hanno sguinzagliato i cani da ricerca per setacciare l'intero bosco.
They unleashed the search dogs to comb the entire forest.
La polizia sguinzaglierà decine di agenti in tutta la città per trovare il fuggitivo.
The police will deploy dozens of officers across the city to find the fugitive.
Word forms (48)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| sguinzagliare | infinitive |
| sguinzaglio | indicative · present · singular · 1st person |
| sguinzagli | indicative · present · singular · 2nd person |
| sguinzaglia | indicative · present · singular · 3rd person |
| sguinzagliamo | indicative · present · plural · 1st person |
| sguinzagliate | indicative · present · plural · 2nd person |
| sguinzagliano | indicative · present · plural · 3rd person |
| sguinzagliavo | indicative · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| sguinzagliavi | indicative · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| sguinzagliava | indicative · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| sguinzagliavamo | indicative · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| sguinzagliavate | indicative · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| sguinzagliavano | indicative · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| sguinzagliai | indicative · past · singular · 1st person |
| sguinzagliasti | indicative · past · singular · 2nd person |
| sguinzagliò | indicative · past · singular · 3rd person |
| sguinzagliammo | indicative · past · plural · 1st person |
| sguinzagliaste | indicative · past · plural · 2nd person |
| sguinzagliarono | indicative · past · plural · 3rd person |
| sguinzaglierò | indicative · future · singular · 1st person |
| sguinzaglierai | indicative · future · singular · 2nd person |
| sguinzaglierà | indicative · future · singular · 3rd person |
| sguinzaglieremo | indicative · future · plural · 1st person |
| sguinzaglierete | indicative · future · plural · 2nd person |
| sguinzaglieranno | indicative · future · plural · 3rd person |
| sguinzagli | subjunctive · present · singular · 1st person |
| sguinzagli | subjunctive · present · singular · 2nd person |
| sguinzagli | subjunctive · present · singular · 3rd person |
| sguinzagliamo | subjunctive · present · plural · 1st person |
| sguinzagliate | subjunctive · present · plural · 2nd person |
| sguinzaglino | subjunctive · present · plural · 3rd person |
| sguinzagliassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 1st person |
| sguinzagliassi | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 2nd person |
| sguinzagliasse | subjunctive · imperfect · singular · 3rd person |
| sguinzagliassimo | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 1st person |
| sguinzagliaste | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 2nd person |
| sguinzagliassero | subjunctive · imperfect · plural · 3rd person |
| sguinzaglierei | conditional · present · singular · 1st person |
| sguinzaglieresti | conditional · present · singular · 2nd person |
| sguinzaglierebbe | conditional · present · singular · 3rd person |
| sguinzaglieremmo | conditional · present · plural · 1st person |
| sguinzagliereste | conditional · present · plural · 2nd person |
| sguinzaglierebbero | conditional · present · plural · 3rd person |
| sguinzaglia | imperative · singular · 2nd person |
| sguinzagliamo | imperative · plural · 1st person |
| sguinzagliate | imperative · plural · 2nd person |
| sguinzagliando | gerund |
| sguinzagliato | past · participle |
Usage notes
- Derived from 'guinzaglio' (leash) with the privative prefix 's-'. Commonly used figuratively in journalism and detective fiction.