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41 terrible
adj.1 terrible (tremendo).2 terrifying.* * *► adjetivo1 terrible, awful* * *adj.terrible, horrible* * *ADJ terrible, awful* * *a) <tortura/experiencia> terrible, horrificb) ( uso hiperbólico) terrible* * *= formidable, harrowing, dreadful, horrendous, redoubtable, terrible, ghastly, excruciating, appalling, god-awful, shattering.Ex. 'It's up to you to see that things are done,' she defended herself, somewhat nervous and abashed by his formidable stare.Ex. See Michael R. Booth, 'English Melodrama', for further details of this harrowing tale.Ex. The same author also wrote the book 'Serials deselection: a dreadful dilemma'.Ex. If we were confronted with the alternatives that Mr. Gorman described this morning, it would have been a horrendous undertaking.Ex. The city has returned a majority for every Democratic presidential candidate since 1916, when Woodrow Wilson took 65% of the city's vote against the redoubtable Charles Evans Hughes.Ex. She had a distant fleeting vision of a workplace in which people acted like free and sensible human beings, instead of like the martyrized and victimized puppets of a terrible system called 'one-upmanship'.Ex. True, ghastly additions were made to XML.Ex. Loneliness can involve excruciating physical pain as well as harrowing mental suffering.Ex. His article, 'The skeleton in the our closet: public libraries art collections suffer appalling losses,' examines the problem of theft and mutilation of art materials in public libraries.Ex. The director and deputies deserve the most recognition because they actually had to give up time with their families for the god-awful places we sent them.Ex. The death of Scindia was shattering to all of us who knew him.----* Atila el Terrible = Tilly the Hun.* jaqueca terrible = splitting headache.* Terrible, el = Hun, the.* terrible experiencia = ordeal.* * *a) <tortura/experiencia> terrible, horrificb) ( uso hiperbólico) terrible* * *el Terrible= Hun, theEx: Mathilda Panopoulos, known as 'Tilly' to her friends and colleagues but usually styled 'Tilly the Hun' or just 'the Hun' by her detractors, is a native of Pritchard.
= formidable, harrowing, dreadful, horrendous, redoubtable, terrible, ghastly, excruciating, appalling, god-awful, shattering.Ex: 'It's up to you to see that things are done,' she defended herself, somewhat nervous and abashed by his formidable stare.
Ex: See Michael R. Booth, 'English Melodrama', for further details of this harrowing tale.Ex: The same author also wrote the book 'Serials deselection: a dreadful dilemma'.Ex: If we were confronted with the alternatives that Mr. Gorman described this morning, it would have been a horrendous undertaking.Ex: The city has returned a majority for every Democratic presidential candidate since 1916, when Woodrow Wilson took 65% of the city's vote against the redoubtable Charles Evans Hughes.Ex: She had a distant fleeting vision of a workplace in which people acted like free and sensible human beings, instead of like the martyrized and victimized puppets of a terrible system called 'one-upmanship'.Ex: True, ghastly additions were made to XML.Ex: Loneliness can involve excruciating physical pain as well as harrowing mental suffering.Ex: His article, 'The skeleton in the our closet: public libraries art collections suffer appalling losses,' examines the problem of theft and mutilation of art materials in public libraries.Ex: The director and deputies deserve the most recognition because they actually had to give up time with their families for the god-awful places we sent them.Ex: The death of Scindia was shattering to all of us who knew him.* Atila el Terrible = Tilly the Hun.* jaqueca terrible = splitting headache.* Terrible, el = Hun, the.* terrible experiencia = ordeal.* * *1 ‹tortura/experiencia› terrible, horrific2 (uso hiperbólico) terribletengo un sueño terrible I'm terribly tiredtenía un terrible dolor de muelas she had terrible toothachela máquina hace un ruido terrible the machine makes a terrible o dreadful noiseeste niño es terrible, no para quieto this child is terrible, he won't sit still* * *
Multiple Entries:
algo terrible
terrible
terrible adjetivo
terrible adjetivo
1 (desagradable) terrible, awful
2 (intensificador) terrible
3 (travieso) naughty
' terrible' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
abominable
- amanecer
- campeonato
- canutas
- condición
- demonio
- diabólica
- diabólico
- disgusto
- espanto
- estado
- follón
- hambruna
- impresionante
- infumable
- lamentable
- lástima
- maltrecha
- maltrecho
- miedosa
- miedoso
- pecho
- pena
- penosa
- penoso
- pésima
- pésimo
- rabiosa
- rabioso
- secuela
- susto
- tener
- traer
- tremebunda
- tremebundo
- tremenda
- tremendo
- triunfo
- agobiante
- antología
- barbaridad
- bueno
- cabreo
- calamidad
- cochino
- endiablado
- enredo
- espantoso
- fatal
- funesto
English:
abominable
- appalling
- bad
- blow
- carry-on
- damage
- dispose
- doom
- flap
- lousy
- ordeal
- oversight
- rotten
- shocking
- terrible
- think back
- dreadful
- flirt
- harrowing
- horrendous
- job
* * *terrible adj1. [malo] terrible;la guerra es siempre terrible war is always a terrible thing;un año terrible para la economía del país a terrible year for the country's economy;este niño es terrible this boy is a terror;es terrible no poder hacer nada por ellos it's terrible not to be able to do anything for them2. [mucho] terrible;tengo un hambre/frío terrible I'm terribly hungry/cold* * *adj terrible, awful* * *terrible adj: terrible, horrible♦ terriblemente adv* * *terrible adj terrible / awful -
42 tramar
v.1 to weave (hilo).2 to plot.estar tramando algo to be up to somethingFraguamos un plan We concoct a plan.3 to scheme to.* * *1 (tejidos) to weave2 figurado (maquinar) to plot, cook up■ ¿qué estás tramando? what are you up to?* * *verb1) to plot, devise2) weave* * *1. VT1) (=tejer) to weave2) [+ engaño, enredo] to plan, plot; [+ complot] to lay, hatch¿qué estarán tramando? — I wonder what they're up to?
2.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo < engaño> to devise; < venganza> to plot; < complot> to hatch, lay2.¿qué andan tramando? — what are you up to? (colloq)
tramarse v pron (enf) to plot, scheme* * *= be up to, weave, engineer, plot, scheme, cook up, concoct.Ex. When I saw what he was up to, I drew back for a punch and hit him so hard on the nose that he fell on his back and lay there for some time, so that his wife stood over him and cried out 'Mercy! You've done my husband in!'.Ex. You cannot get pleasure from a literary book until you have 'lived inside it' -- have discovered the patterns of event, of character, of language, of meaning, being woven in it.Ex. So, in telephone transmission the bandwidth of each speech circuit is engineered to be 4kHz.Ex. The Moral Majority, a coalition of religious groups, is a collective name for a group of Americans who regularly plot the defeat of incumbent politicians who do not support their views.Ex. This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.Ex. He believes that most political brouhahas are cooked up to divert the public's attention from the real terrorism.Ex. Their unquenchable thirst for revenge enabled them to concoct a diabolical scheme.----* andar tramando algo malo = be up to no good, get up to + no good.* estar tramando algo malo = be up to no good, get up to + no good.* estar tramando alguna barrabasada = be up to no good, get up to + no good.* tramar una conspiración = hatch + plot, spin + conspiracy.* tramar un complot = hatch + plot.* * *1.verbo transitivo < engaño> to devise; < venganza> to plot; < complot> to hatch, lay2.¿qué andan tramando? — what are you up to? (colloq)
tramarse v pron (enf) to plot, scheme* * *= be up to, weave, engineer, plot, scheme, cook up, concoct.Ex: When I saw what he was up to, I drew back for a punch and hit him so hard on the nose that he fell on his back and lay there for some time, so that his wife stood over him and cried out 'Mercy! You've done my husband in!'.
Ex: You cannot get pleasure from a literary book until you have 'lived inside it' -- have discovered the patterns of event, of character, of language, of meaning, being woven in it.Ex: So, in telephone transmission the bandwidth of each speech circuit is engineered to be 4kHz.Ex: The Moral Majority, a coalition of religious groups, is a collective name for a group of Americans who regularly plot the defeat of incumbent politicians who do not support their views.Ex: This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.Ex: He believes that most political brouhahas are cooked up to divert the public's attention from the real terrorism.Ex: Their unquenchable thirst for revenge enabled them to concoct a diabolical scheme.* andar tramando algo malo = be up to no good, get up to + no good.* estar tramando algo malo = be up to no good, get up to + no good.* estar tramando alguna barrabasada = be up to no good, get up to + no good.* tramar una conspiración = hatch + plot, spin + conspiracy.* tramar un complot = hatch + plot.* * *tramar [A1 ]vt1 ‹engaño› to devise; ‹venganza› to plot; ‹complot› to hatch, lay¿qué andas tramando? what are you plotting o scheming?, what are you up to? ( colloq)2 ( Col) ‹lector/público› to absorbme tramó la conferencia I was totally absorbed by the lecture, the lecture really captured my interest■ tramarse( enf) to plot, scheme¿qué se estarán tramando? I wonder what they're plotting o scheming* * *
tramar ( conjugate tramar) verbo transitivo ‹ engaño› to devise;
‹ venganza› to plot;
‹ complot› to hatch, lay;◊ ¿qué andan tramando? what are they up to? (colloq)
tramar vtr (un engaño, conspiración, plan) to plot: ¿qué estará tramando? what is he up to?
' tramar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
planear
- traerse
- traer
English:
concoct
- cook up
- hatch
- plot
- up to
- brew
- engineer
* * *tramar vt1. [planear] to plot;[complot] to hatch;un plan tramado por sus enemigos a plot hatched by her enemies;estar tramando algo to be up to something2. [hilo] to weave* * *v/t complot hatch* * *tramar vt1) : to plot, to plan2) : to weave* * * -
43 brete
m.1 fix, difficulty.estar en un brete to be in a fixponer a alguien en un brete to put somebody in a difficult position2 job.* * *1 difficult position, tight spot, fix, jam\estar en un brete to be in a fix, be in a tight spotponer a alguien en un brete to put somebody in a difficult position, put somebody on the spot* * *SM1) (=cepo) shackles pl2) (=apuro) predicament3) Caribe *** screw ***, lay **** * *a) (fam) ( situación difícil) jam (colloq), tight spot (colloq)nos puso en un brete — he put us on the spot
b) (RPl) ( para el ganado) chute* * *a) (fam) ( situación difícil) jam (colloq), tight spot (colloq)nos puso en un brete — he put us on the spot
b) (RPl) ( para el ganado) chute* * *1 (para el ganado) chute, sheddersalieron del brete they got out of the jamnos puso en un brete con aquellas preguntas he put us on the spot with those questions* * *
brete sustantivo masculino
♦ Locuciones: estar/poner en un brete, to be (put) in a spot/jam: nos han puesto en un brete, they put us on the spot
' brete' also found in these entries:
English:
discomfit
* * *brete nm1. [apuro] fix, difficulty;estar en un brete to be in a fix;poner a alguien en un brete to put sb in a difficult o awkward positionestá siempre en un brete she's always in a flap* * *m fig fam:poner a alguien en un brete put s.o. on the spot;estar en un brete be in a jam fam* * *brete nm: jam, tight spot -
44 chanfaina
f.1 ragout of livers and lights.2 a trifling, worthless thing.3 offal stew.* * *1 (vegetal) ≈ ratatouille2 (de carne) offal stew* * *SF1) (Culin) cheap stew* * ** * ** * *( fam)2 ( Col) (cargo oficial) post* * *chanfaina nfCol Fam cushy number [obtained through connections]* * *f GASTR lamb casserole -
45 lioso
m.troublemaker, rabble-rouser, peace-breaker, peacebreaker.* * *► adjetivo1 confusing* * *ADJ gossipy* * *- sa adjetivo (fam) confusing, muddling* * *- sa adjetivo (fam) confusing, muddling* * *lioso -sa( fam); confusing, muddling* * *
lioso
lioso,-a adj fam (tema, situación) confusing
' lioso' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
enredo
- liosa
* * *lioso, -a adjFam1. [complicado] [asunto] complicated;[explicación, historia] convoluted, involved* * *adj confusing* * *1) : confusing, muddled2) : troublemaking -
46 apatusco
SM1) (=adornos) frills pl, adornments pl -
47 metejón *
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48 troncho
m.1 heart.2 stem, stalk.pres.indicat.1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: tronchar.* * *► adjetivo1 stem, stalk* * *1. SM1) (Bot) stem, stalk2) Cono Sur (=trozo) piece, chunk3) And (=enredo) knot, tangle4) *** (=pene) prick ***2.ADJ Cono Sur maimed, crippled* * *stalk* * *
Del verbo tronchar: ( conjugate tronchar)
troncho es:
1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo
tronchó es:
3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo
Multiple Entries:
tronchar
troncho
tronchar ( conjugate tronchar) verbo transitivo ‹tallo/rama› to snap
troncharse verbo pronominal [tallo/rama] to break o snap off;◊ tronchose de (la) risa (Esp fam) to die laughing (colloq)
tronchar verbo transitivo
1 (la rama de un árbol, etc) to break off
2 (frustrar, truncar) to cut short, shatter
troncho sustantivo masculino (de lechuga, etc) stem, stalk
* * *troncho nm[de lechuga, coliflor] stalk* * *m stalk, stem -
49 enredar en
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