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combatting racism

  • 1 luchar contra el racismo

    (v.) = combat + racism
    Ex. One of the most effective ways of combatting racism is through enlightened, moderate and courageous work colleagues.
    * * *
    (v.) = combat + racism

    Ex: One of the most effective ways of combatting racism is through enlightened, moderate and courageous work colleagues.

    Spanish-English dictionary > luchar contra el racismo

  • 2 corajudo

    adj.
    1 angry, passionate, easily irritated.
    2 spirited; tough; bold; (Southern Cone) brave.
    3 courageous, ballsy.
    * * *
    1 (valiente) tough, brave
    2 (irritable) quick-tempered
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    ADJ
    1) (=irascible) quick-tempered
    2) (=valiente) brave, gutsy *
    * * *
    - da adjetivo brave
    * * *
    Ex. One of the most effective ways of combatting racism is through enlightened, moderate and courageous work colleagues.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo brave
    * * *

    Ex: One of the most effective ways of combatting racism is through enlightened, moderate and courageous work colleagues.

    * * *
    brave
    hay que ser corajudo para meterse en un negocio tan arriesgado it takes (a lot of) guts to get involved in such a risky business ( colloq)
    * * *
    corajudo, -a adj
    [valiente] brave
    * * *
    adj L.Am.
    brave

    Spanish-English dictionary > corajudo

  • 3 valeroso

    adj.
    brave, manly, courageous, lionhearted.
    * * *
    1 courageous, brave
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    (f. - valerosa)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ brave, valiant
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo brave, courageous, valiant (liter)
    * * *
    = determined, valiant, courageous, plucky [pluckier -comp., pluckiest -sup.].
    Ex. The fifteenth edition, published in 1951, represented a determined effort to update and unify the schedules.
    Ex. Manchester Public Libraries are making a valiant attempt to offer a suitable facility despite over-crowding and lack of space.
    Ex. One of the most effective ways of combatting racism is through enlightened, moderate and courageous work colleagues.
    Ex. Steel's book exemplifies what might be termed the subgenre of 'Mutiny novel,' using such conventional characters as the plucky Englishwoman, the unflappable English gentleman-spy, and the crazed religious zealot.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo brave, courageous, valiant (liter)
    * * *
    = determined, valiant, courageous, plucky [pluckier -comp., pluckiest -sup.].

    Ex: The fifteenth edition, published in 1951, represented a determined effort to update and unify the schedules.

    Ex: Manchester Public Libraries are making a valiant attempt to offer a suitable facility despite over-crowding and lack of space.
    Ex: One of the most effective ways of combatting racism is through enlightened, moderate and courageous work colleagues.
    Ex: Steel's book exemplifies what might be termed the subgenre of 'Mutiny novel,' using such conventional characters as the plucky Englishwoman, the unflappable English gentleman-spy, and the crazed religious zealot.

    * * *
    brave, courageous, valiant ( liter)
    se mostró valerosa frente a la adversidad she showed courage in the face of adversity
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    valeroso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo

    brave, courageous, valiant (liter)
    valeroso,-a adjetivo brave, courageous, valiant

    ' valeroso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    brava
    - bravo
    - valerosa
    English:
    courageous
    - valiant
    * * *
    valeroso, -a adj
    brave, courageous
    * * *
    adj valiant
    * * *
    valeroso, -sa adj
    : brave, valiant

    Spanish-English dictionary > valeroso

  • 4 valiente

    adj.
    brave (valeroso).
    f. & m.
    1 brave person (valeroso).
    2 valiant, brave person, daring person.
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    1 (valeroso) brave, courageous, bold
    2 (fuerte) strong, vigorous
    3 familiar figurado (excelente) fine, excellent
    ■ ¡valiente ayudante estás hecho! a fine assistant you are!
    4 peyorativo (bravucón) boastful, bragging
    1 (valeroso) brave person
    2 (bravucón) boaster, braggart
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    adj.
    bold, brave
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [persona, acción, decisión] brave, courageous, valiant liter
    2) iró (antes de s) fine

    ¡valiente amigo estás tú hecho! — a fine friend o some friend you are! *

    ¡valiente gobierno! — some government! *, what a government! *

    2.
    SMF brave man/woman
    * * *
    I
    1) < persona> brave, courageous, valiant (liter)

    valiente sinvergüenza estás hecho! — you have some nerve (AmE colloq), you've got a nerve (BrE colloq)

    valiente amigo que tienes! — some friend he is! (colloq & iro)

    II
    masculino y femenino brave person
    * * *
    = valiant, gallant, courageous, spunky, plucky [pluckier -comp., pluckiest -sup.], fearless, stud, brave [braver -comp., bravest -sup.].
    Ex. Manchester Public Libraries are making a valiant attempt to offer a suitable facility despite over-crowding and lack of space.
    Ex. This was an untenable state of affairs and he made a gallant effort to secure librarians and library boards from the possibility of such suits.
    Ex. One of the most effective ways of combatting racism is through enlightened, moderate and courageous work colleagues.
    Ex. The author discusses a number of ' spunky' girls in adolescent and children's literature.
    Ex. Steel's book exemplifies what might be termed the subgenre of 'Mutiny novel,' using such conventional characters as the plucky Englishwoman, the unflappable English gentleman-spy, and the crazed religious zealot.
    Ex. He describes the decoration of the tombs, explaining that this artwork is a fearless thumbing of the nose at death itself.
    Ex. 'Slut'/'angel' and 'wuss'/' stud' dichotomies provide an oversimplified grid from which adolescents negotiate complex feelings towards their own sexuality.
    Ex. It would be a brave man who would predict that such a process will always remain clumsy, slow and faulty in detail.
    * * *
    I
    1) < persona> brave, courageous, valiant (liter)

    valiente sinvergüenza estás hecho! — you have some nerve (AmE colloq), you've got a nerve (BrE colloq)

    valiente amigo que tienes! — some friend he is! (colloq & iro)

    II
    masculino y femenino brave person
    * * *
    = valiant, gallant, courageous, spunky, plucky [pluckier -comp., pluckiest -sup.], fearless, stud, brave [braver -comp., bravest -sup.].

    Ex: Manchester Public Libraries are making a valiant attempt to offer a suitable facility despite over-crowding and lack of space.

    Ex: This was an untenable state of affairs and he made a gallant effort to secure librarians and library boards from the possibility of such suits.
    Ex: One of the most effective ways of combatting racism is through enlightened, moderate and courageous work colleagues.
    Ex: The author discusses a number of ' spunky' girls in adolescent and children's literature.
    Ex: Steel's book exemplifies what might be termed the subgenre of 'Mutiny novel,' using such conventional characters as the plucky Englishwoman, the unflappable English gentleman-spy, and the crazed religious zealot.
    Ex: He describes the decoration of the tombs, explaining that this artwork is a fearless thumbing of the nose at death itself.
    Ex: 'Slut'/'angel' and 'wuss'/' stud' dichotomies provide an oversimplified grid from which adolescents negotiate complex feelings towards their own sexuality.
    Ex: It would be a brave man who would predict that such a process will always remain clumsy, slow and faulty in detail.

    * * *
    A ‹persona› brave, courageous, valiant ( liter)
    se las da de valiente y a la hora de la verdad … he makes out that he's brave but when it comes to it …
    (como intensificador): ¡valiente sinvergüenza estás tu hecho! you have some nerve ( AmE) o ( BrE) a real nerve ( colloq)
    ¡valiente estupidez! that was pretty stupid! ( colloq)
    ¡valiente amigo que tienes! some friend he is o nice friends you have! ( colloq iro)
    brave person
    los valientes marchan con la frente en alto the brave walk with their heads held high ( frml)
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    valiente adjetivo ‹ persona› brave, courageous
    valiente adjetivo
    1 (con coraje, arrojado) brave, courageous, valiant
    2 irón ¡valiente tontería acaba de decir!, that was a pretty stupid thing to say!
    ' valiente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    gallarda
    - gallardo
    - guapa
    - guapo
    - resuelta
    - resuelto
    - arrecho
    - atrevido
    - audaz
    - dar
    - envalentonar
    - macho
    English:
    bold
    - brave
    - courageous
    - gallant
    - gritty
    - plucky
    - some
    - spunky
    - valiant
    - of
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [valeroso] brave, courageous
    2. Irónico [menudo]
    ¡en valiente lío te has metido! you've got yourself into a fine mess!;
    ¡valiente amigo estás hecho! some friend you are!
    ♦ nmf
    brave person
    * * *
    adj
    1 brave
    2 irón fine;
    ¡valiente sorpresa! a fine surprise this is!;
    ¡en valiente lío te has metido! a fine mess you’ve gotten yourself into!;
    ¡valientes vacaciones! some vacation this is!
    * * *
    1) : brave, valiant
    2) (used ironically) : fine, great
    ¡valiente amiga!: what a fine friend!
    * * *
    valiente adj brave

    Spanish-English dictionary > valiente

  • 5 destruir

    v.
    to destroy.
    El temblor destruyó la pared The quake destroyed the wall.
    Sus trucos destruyeron a María His tricks destroyed Mary.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ HUIR], like link=huir huir
    1 to destroy
    2 figurado to destroy, ruin, wreck
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ objeto, edificio] to destroy
    2) (=estropear) [+ amistad, matrimonio, armonía] to wreck, destroy; [+ argumento, teoría] to demolish; [+ esperanza] to dash, shatter; [+ proyecto, plan] to wreck, ruin
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) <documentos/pruebas> to destroy; < ciudad> to destroy; < medio ambiente> to damage
    b) ( echar por tierra) < reputación> to ruin; < plan> to wreck; < esperanzas> to dash, shatter

    le destruyó la vida — it/he wrecked o destroyed his/her life

    * * *
    = demolish, destroy, knock out, scupper, wipe out, trash, pull apart, sweep away, knock down, rack [wrack], wreak + destruction, destruct, shred, wreck, decimate, lay + waste to, wash out, run down, break down, blow up, rubbish, stomp + Nombre + out, smash.
    Ex. Having just demolished enumerative classification to some extent in the previous section, it is reasonable to ask how effective menu-based information retrieval systems might be.
    Ex. I am frequently taken to task as someone who would try to destroy the integrity of certain catalogs on the West Coast.
    Ex. Two years ago Hurricane Hugo nearly knocked out Charleston.
    Ex. This arrangement could definitely help solve the librarian's problems, unless unexpected events scupper it.
    Ex. Strong economic forces, inflation and an over-strong pound wiped out any noticeable benefits of EEC membership to industry.
    Ex. At the same time, the author takes issue with the view that the great libraries of America are being ' trashed' by the rush towards technology.
    Ex. If solutions are not found to meet this challenge, users' hunger for multimedia could pull the Internet apart.
    Ex. Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex. Your note attempts to knock down an assertion not made.
    Ex. Both countries that have been wracked for the last ten years by violent civil wars.
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    Ex. That means that the abstractions of scientific knowledge reduce the reality and even destruct it.
    Ex. If they do muster up the courage to participate, they have learned what it is like to lose: they describe it as being 'slaughtered,' 'blown away,' or ' shredded'.
    Ex. They had made a secret deal with Otto Reich to wreck Cuba's economy.
    Ex. Insect pests decimate a significant proportion of the world's food supply and transmit a number of deadly human diseases.
    Ex. The mutilation of periodicals is laying waste to vital and expensive periodical collections in all kinds of library across the USA, and it seems to strike academic libraries with particular virulence.
    Ex. Some sections of road washed out by flood waters.
    Ex. It really is time we stopped kow-towing to every Tom, Dick and Harry who runs down our industry.
    Ex. It describes our experience in combatting mould which grew as a result of high humidity and temperatures when the air conditioning system broke down for several days after several days of rain.
    Ex. The article 'The library has blown up!' relates the short circuit in the main electrical circuit board of Porstmouth Public Library caused by electricians who were carrying out routine work.
    Ex. The theory of Scandinavian racial purity cherished by Hitler and the Nazis has been rubbished by new scientific research.
    Ex. Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.
    Ex. The library was badly vandalised and the intruders overturned 10 large bookcases, tore paintings down, emptied catalogues, and smashed intercoms, chairs, tables and windows.
    ----
    * chocar destruyendo = smash into.
    * destruir completamente = blow + Nombre + to bits.
    * destruir la esperanza = shatter + Posesivo + hopes.
    * destruir un mito = explode + myth.
    * fuego + destruir = fire + destroy.
    * fuego + destruir por completo = fire + gut.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) <documentos/pruebas> to destroy; < ciudad> to destroy; < medio ambiente> to damage
    b) ( echar por tierra) < reputación> to ruin; < plan> to wreck; < esperanzas> to dash, shatter

    le destruyó la vida — it/he wrecked o destroyed his/her life

    * * *
    = demolish, destroy, knock out, scupper, wipe out, trash, pull apart, sweep away, knock down, rack [wrack], wreak + destruction, destruct, shred, wreck, decimate, lay + waste to, wash out, run down, break down, blow up, rubbish, stomp + Nombre + out, smash.

    Ex: Having just demolished enumerative classification to some extent in the previous section, it is reasonable to ask how effective menu-based information retrieval systems might be.

    Ex: I am frequently taken to task as someone who would try to destroy the integrity of certain catalogs on the West Coast.
    Ex: Two years ago Hurricane Hugo nearly knocked out Charleston.
    Ex: This arrangement could definitely help solve the librarian's problems, unless unexpected events scupper it.
    Ex: Strong economic forces, inflation and an over-strong pound wiped out any noticeable benefits of EEC membership to industry.
    Ex: At the same time, the author takes issue with the view that the great libraries of America are being ' trashed' by the rush towards technology.
    Ex: If solutions are not found to meet this challenge, users' hunger for multimedia could pull the Internet apart.
    Ex: Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex: Your note attempts to knock down an assertion not made.
    Ex: Both countries that have been wracked for the last ten years by violent civil wars.
    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    Ex: That means that the abstractions of scientific knowledge reduce the reality and even destruct it.
    Ex: If they do muster up the courage to participate, they have learned what it is like to lose: they describe it as being 'slaughtered,' 'blown away,' or ' shredded'.
    Ex: They had made a secret deal with Otto Reich to wreck Cuba's economy.
    Ex: Insect pests decimate a significant proportion of the world's food supply and transmit a number of deadly human diseases.
    Ex: The mutilation of periodicals is laying waste to vital and expensive periodical collections in all kinds of library across the USA, and it seems to strike academic libraries with particular virulence.
    Ex: Some sections of road washed out by flood waters.
    Ex: It really is time we stopped kow-towing to every Tom, Dick and Harry who runs down our industry.
    Ex: It describes our experience in combatting mould which grew as a result of high humidity and temperatures when the air conditioning system broke down for several days after several days of rain.
    Ex: The article 'The library has blown up!' relates the short circuit in the main electrical circuit board of Porstmouth Public Library caused by electricians who were carrying out routine work.
    Ex: The theory of Scandinavian racial purity cherished by Hitler and the Nazis has been rubbished by new scientific research.
    Ex: Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.
    Ex: The library was badly vandalised and the intruders overturned 10 large bookcases, tore paintings down, emptied catalogues, and smashed intercoms, chairs, tables and windows.
    * chocar destruyendo = smash into.
    * destruir completamente = blow + Nombre + to bits.
    * destruir la esperanza = shatter + Posesivo + hopes.
    * destruir un mito = explode + myth.
    * fuego + destruir = fire + destroy.
    * fuego + destruir por completo = fire + gut.

    * * *
    vt
    1 ‹documentos/pruebas› to destroy; ‹ciudad› to destroy
    productos que destruyen el medio ambiente products that damage the environment
    2 (echar por tierra) ‹reputación› to ruin; ‹plan› to ruin, wreck; ‹esperanzas› to dash, shatter
    los problemas económicos destruyeron su matrimonio financial problems wrecked o ruined their marriage
    la droga está destruyendo muchas vidas drugs are wrecking o ruining o destroying the lives of many people
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    destruir ( conjugate destruir) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹documentos/pruebas› to destroy;

    ‹ ciudad› to destroy;
    ‹ medio ambiente› to damage

    ‹ plan› to wreck;
    ‹ esperanzas› to dash, shatter
    destruir verbo transitivo to destroy
    ' destruir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acabar
    - barrer
    - dinamitar
    - minar
    - socavar
    - anular
    - consumir
    - liquidar
    English:
    destroy
    - flatten
    - gut
    - nuke
    - obliterate
    - shatter
    - zap
    - explode
    - ruin
    - shred
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [destrozar] to destroy
    2. [desbaratar] [argumento] to demolish;
    [proyecto] to ruin, to wreck; [ilusión, esperanzas] to dash; [reputación] to ruin; [matrimonio, relación] to wreck; [pareja] to break up
    3. [hacienda, fortuna] to squander
    * * *
    v/t
    1 destroy
    2 ( estropear) ruin, wreck
    * * *
    destruir {41} vt
    : to destroy
    * * *
    destruir vb to destroy

    Spanish-English dictionary > destruir

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