Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Guastá-re, v. a.
1. to spoil, undo, ruin, confound;2. to spoil, mar, corrupt, deprave, debauch;3. to dissipate, spend, waste, destroy, squander.— la fama d'uno, to destroy a person's reputation;4. to justify. — l'arte, to do a thing badly, out of rule; v. n. to rot, grow rotten, putrefy; v. r. 1. to become ill, to injure one's person or health; 2. to become desperately in love; s. m. Guastá-tóre, f. Guastá-tríce; adj. Guastá-nte.
Florio: a worlde of wordes, or most copious, dictionarie in Italian and English
guastare: to waste, to spoile, to mar, to to spill, to vndoe, to deface, to corrupt, to consume. Also to besot or entangle in loue. Also to execute or put to death.
