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crumbling

  • 1 desmenuzamiento

    • crumbling
    • disintegration

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > desmenuzamiento

  • 2 desmoronamiento

    • crumbling
    • disintegration
    • falling apart
    • falling to pieces
    • falling-in
    • pulling power
    • pulling to pieces
    • pulling up

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > desmoronamiento

  • 3 desmoronamiento

    m.
    1 crumbling.
    2 falling apart, crumbling, disintegration, falling-in.
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    1 crumbling, disintegration, fall
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    SM crumbling, collapse
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    masculino ( derrumbamiento) collapse; (de fe, moral) breakdown
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    Ex. The author attempts to explain the events of 1997 in which the cracks and crumbling of the information industry showed in mergers and closures.
    * * *
    masculino ( derrumbamiento) collapse; (de fe, moral) breakdown
    * * *

    Ex: The author attempts to explain the events of 1997 in which the cracks and crumbling of the information industry showed in mergers and closures.

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    1 (derrumbamiento) collapse
    el desmoronamiento del imperio the collapse o fall of the empire
    2 (de fe, moral) breakdown
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    1. [de edificio, roca] crumbling, falling to pieces
    2. [de ideales] crumbling;
    [de persona] going to pieces
    3. [de imperio, estado] fall, collapse
    * * *
    collapse
    * * *
    : crumbling, falling apart

    Spanish-English dictionary > desmoronamiento

  • 4 desmoronado

    ADJ [casa, edificio] tumbledown
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    = crumbling, disintegrating.
    Ex. We must now look beyond crumbling books to determine the deeper significance of our stewardship obligations for the future = Debemos mirar más allá de los libros en deterioro para determinar cuál es el verdadero significado de nuestras obligaciones para el futuro.
    Ex. For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    * * *
    = crumbling, disintegrating.

    Ex: We must now look beyond crumbling books to determine the deeper significance of our stewardship obligations for the future = Debemos mirar más allá de los libros en deterioro para determinar cuál es el verdadero significado de nuestras obligaciones para el futuro.

    Ex: For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.

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    Del verbo desmoronar: ( conjugate desmoronar)

    desmoronado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    desmoronado    
    desmoronar
    desmoronado,-a adjetivo delapidated, crumbling, rickety: ese muro está un poco desmoronado, this wall is a bit delapidated
    desmoronar verbo reflexivo to crumble, fall to pieces
    ' desmoronado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    desmoronada

    Spanish-English dictionary > desmoronado

  • 5 deteriorado

    adj.
    1 spoiled, damaged; worn; shopsoiled (géneros).
    2 impaired, damaged, deteriorated, shop-worn.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: deteriorar.
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    1→ link=deteriorar deteriorar
    1 damaged, worn
    * * *
    (f. - deteriorada)
    adj.
    2) worn
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    ADJ
    1) [edificio, mueble] dilapidated
    2) [ropa, alfombra] worn
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < mercancías> damaged; < edificio> dilapidated, run down
    * * *
    = impaired, decayed, decrepit, decaying, dilapidated, crumbling, disintegrating.
    Ex. In contrast to higher specificity, higher exhaustivity increases precision at the cost of impaired recall.
    Ex. The city was considered to be seedy ( decayed, littered, grimy, and dreary), crowded, busy, and strongly idiosyncratic (quaint, historic, colorful, and full of 'atmosphere').
    Ex. No bright new digital firm can do without at least some of the supposedly decrepit bureaucracy it so abhors in the old tweedy institutions it wants to replace.
    Ex. Following World War II, 'urban renewal' referred primarily to public efforts to revitalize aging and decaying inner cities.
    Ex. China's transport authorities plan to scrap dilapidated ships to enhance safety and improve the competitiveness of the industry.
    Ex. We must now look beyond crumbling books to determine the deeper significance of our stewardship obligations for the future = Debemos mirar más allá de los libros en deterioro para determinar cuál es el verdadero significado de nuestras obligaciones para el futuro.
    Ex. For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
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    * deteriorado por el humo = smoke-damaged.
    * deteriorado por el paso del tiempo = timeworn.
    * no estar deteriorado = unimpaired.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < mercancías> damaged; < edificio> dilapidated, run down
    * * *
    = impaired, decayed, decrepit, decaying, dilapidated, crumbling, disintegrating.

    Ex: In contrast to higher specificity, higher exhaustivity increases precision at the cost of impaired recall.

    Ex: The city was considered to be seedy ( decayed, littered, grimy, and dreary), crowded, busy, and strongly idiosyncratic (quaint, historic, colorful, and full of 'atmosphere').
    Ex: No bright new digital firm can do without at least some of the supposedly decrepit bureaucracy it so abhors in the old tweedy institutions it wants to replace.
    Ex: Following World War II, 'urban renewal' referred primarily to public efforts to revitalize aging and decaying inner cities.
    Ex: China's transport authorities plan to scrap dilapidated ships to enhance safety and improve the competitiveness of the industry.
    Ex: We must now look beyond crumbling books to determine the deeper significance of our stewardship obligations for the future = Debemos mirar más allá de los libros en deterioro para determinar cuál es el verdadero significado de nuestras obligaciones para el futuro.
    Ex: For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    * deteriorado por el humo = smoke-damaged.
    * deteriorado por el paso del tiempo = timeworn.
    * no estar deteriorado = unimpaired.

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    ‹mercancías› damaged; ‹edificio› dilapidated, run down
    es una mesa bonita pero está muy deteriorada it's a nice table but it's in very bad condition
    * * *

    Del verbo deteriorar: ( conjugate deteriorar)

    deteriorado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    deteriorado    
    deteriorar
    deteriorado
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹ mercancías› damaged;


    ‹ edificio› dilapidated, run down;
    ‹mueble/cuadro› in bad condition
    deteriorar ( conjugate deteriorar) verbo transitivo ‹relaciones/salud/situación› to cause … to deteriorate
    deteriorarse verbo pronominal [relaciones/salud/situación] to deteriorate, worsen;
    [ mercancías] to get damaged
    deteriorar verbo transitivo to spoil, damage
    ' deteriorado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    gastada
    - gastado
    English:
    shop-soiled
    - decrepit
    - fail
    - shop
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    deteriorado, -a adj
    [estropeado] damaged, spoilt; [por los elementos naturales] damaged; [edificio] dilapidated;
    el género llegó muy deteriorado the goods arrived in poor condition;
    el famoso cuadro se halla muy deteriorado the famous painting is in very poor condition;
    las relaciones entre ambos países están muy deterioradas relations between the two countries have greatly deteriorated
    * * *
    adj damaged
    * * *
    deteriorado, -da adj
    : damaged, worn

    Spanish-English dictionary > deteriorado

  • 6 en deterioro

    (adj.) = deteriorating, crumbling, decaying, dilapidated, disintegrating
    Ex. This article discusses the current situation, emphasising the apparent complacency of the government in the face of incipiently deteriorating prospects for public libraries.
    Ex. We must now look beyond crumbling books to determine the deeper significance of our stewardship obligations for the future = Debemos mirar más allá de los libros en deterioro para determinar cuál es el verdadero significado de nuestras obligaciones para el futuro.
    Ex. Following World War II, 'urban renewal' referred primarily to public efforts to revitalize aging and decaying inner cities.
    Ex. China's transport authorities plan to scrap dilapidated ships to enhance safety and improve the competitiveness of the industry.
    Ex. For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    * * *
    (adj.) = deteriorating, crumbling, decaying, dilapidated, disintegrating

    Ex: This article discusses the current situation, emphasising the apparent complacency of the government in the face of incipiently deteriorating prospects for public libraries.

    Ex: We must now look beyond crumbling books to determine the deeper significance of our stewardship obligations for the future = Debemos mirar más allá de los libros en deterioro para determinar cuál es el verdadero significado de nuestras obligaciones para el futuro.
    Ex: Following World War II, 'urban renewal' referred primarily to public efforts to revitalize aging and decaying inner cities.
    Ex: China's transport authorities plan to scrap dilapidated ships to enhance safety and improve the competitiveness of the industry.
    Ex: For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.

    Spanish-English dictionary > en deterioro

  • 7 que se está desintegrando

    (adj.) = crumbling, disintegrating
    Ex. We must now look beyond crumbling books to determine the deeper significance of our stewardship obligations for the future = Debemos mirar más allá de los libros en deterioro para determinar cuál es el verdadero significado de nuestras obligaciones para el futuro.
    Ex. For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    * * *
    (adj.) = crumbling, disintegrating

    Ex: We must now look beyond crumbling books to determine the deeper significance of our stewardship obligations for the future = Debemos mirar más allá de los libros en deterioro para determinar cuál es el verdadero significado de nuestras obligaciones para el futuro.

    Ex: For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.

    Spanish-English dictionary > que se está desintegrando

  • 8 ruinoso

    adj.
    ruinous, in ruins, tacky, shabby.
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    1 ruinous, disastrous
    2 figurado tumbledown, dilapidated
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (Arquit) ruinous; (=destartalado) tumbledown
    2) (Econ) ruinous, disastrous
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo <edificio/vivienda> dilapidated, rundown; <economía/negocio> ruinous, disastrous
    * * *
    = ruinous, dilapidated, decayed, decaying, disintegrating, crumbling, nasty looking, shanky [shankier -comp., shankiest -sup.], ramshackle.
    Ex. Negative features are the water sprinkler fire extinguishing system, which, if activated, would be ruinous to the Library's holdings.
    Ex. China's transport authorities plan to scrap dilapidated ships to enhance safety and improve the competitiveness of the industry.
    Ex. The city was considered to be seedy ( decayed, littered, grimy, and dreary), crowded, busy, and strongly idiosyncratic (quaint, historic, colorful, and full of 'atmosphere').
    Ex. Following World War II, 'urban renewal' referred primarily to public efforts to revitalize aging and decaying inner cities.
    Ex. For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    Ex. We must now look beyond crumbling books to determine the deeper significance of our stewardship obligations for the future = Debemos mirar más allá de los libros en deterioro para determinar cuál es el verdadero significado de nuestras obligaciones para el futuro.
    Ex. It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
    Ex. It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
    Ex. The ramshackle village clings like a limpet to the cliffs.
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    * de aspecto ruinoso = run-down.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo <edificio/vivienda> dilapidated, rundown; <economía/negocio> ruinous, disastrous
    * * *
    = ruinous, dilapidated, decayed, decaying, disintegrating, crumbling, nasty looking, shanky [shankier -comp., shankiest -sup.], ramshackle.

    Ex: Negative features are the water sprinkler fire extinguishing system, which, if activated, would be ruinous to the Library's holdings.

    Ex: China's transport authorities plan to scrap dilapidated ships to enhance safety and improve the competitiveness of the industry.
    Ex: The city was considered to be seedy ( decayed, littered, grimy, and dreary), crowded, busy, and strongly idiosyncratic (quaint, historic, colorful, and full of 'atmosphere').
    Ex: Following World War II, 'urban renewal' referred primarily to public efforts to revitalize aging and decaying inner cities.
    Ex: For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    Ex: We must now look beyond crumbling books to determine the deeper significance of our stewardship obligations for the future = Debemos mirar más allá de los libros en deterioro para determinar cuál es el verdadero significado de nuestras obligaciones para el futuro.
    Ex: It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
    Ex: It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
    Ex: The ramshackle village clings like a limpet to the cliffs.
    * de aspecto ruinoso = run-down.

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    ruinoso -sa
    1 ‹edificio/vivienda› dilapidated, rundown
    2 ‹economía/negocio› ruinous, disastrous
    los intereses resultaron ruinosos the interest was ruinous o crippling
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    ruinoso,-a adjetivo
    1 (un edificio) dilapidated, tumbledown
    2 (un negocio) ruinous, disastrous
    ' ruinoso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ruinosa
    English:
    dilapidated
    - ruinous
    - condemn
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    ruinoso, -a adj
    1. [poco rentable] ruinous;
    la situación del sector textil es ruinosa the textile industry is in a disastrous o ruinous state
    2. [edificio] ramshackle, dilapidated
    * * *
    adj in ruins;
    estado ruinoso dilapidated state
    * * *
    ruinoso, -sa adj
    1) : run-down, dilapidated
    2) : ruinous, disasterous

    Spanish-English dictionary > ruinoso

  • 9 agonizante

    adj.
    f. & m.
    dying person, one who is dying.
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    1 dying
    1 dying person
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    1.
    ADJ (=moribundo) dying; [luz] failing
    2.
    * * *
    adjetivo < persona> dying (before n); <imperio/régimen> crumbling (before n)

    la luz agonizante del crepúsculo — (liter) the fading light of dusk

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    Ex. Libraries must show that they are not moribund institutions sinking into obsolescence but community catalysts.
    * * *
    adjetivo < persona> dying (before n); <imperio/régimen> crumbling (before n)

    la luz agonizante del crepúsculo — (liter) the fading light of dusk

    * * *

    Ex: Libraries must show that they are not moribund institutions sinking into obsolescence but community catalysts.

    * * *
    ‹persona› dying ( before n); ‹imperio/régimen› crumbling ( before n)
    la luz agonizante del crepúsculo ( liter); the fading light of dusk
    dying person
    * * *

    agonizante adjetivo dying
    ' agonizante' also found in these entries:
    English:
    dying
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    [persona, institución] dying; [dictadura] on its last legs;
    tras quince días de agonizante espera after two weeks of agonized waiting
    * * *
    adj dying
    * * *
    : dying

    Spanish-English dictionary > agonizante

  • 10 arrugarse

    1 (piel) to wrinkle; (ropa) to crease; (papel) to crumple (up)
    2 familiar (acobardarse) to get the wind up
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    VPR
    1) [cara] to wrinkle, wrinkle up, get wrinkled; [ropa] to crease, get creased; [planta] to shrivel up
    2) Méx * (=asustarse) to get scared, get frightened
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    (v.) = cockle, crinkle, shrivel up, shrivel
    Ex. Despite the deterioration of the manuscript or printed book because of fading inks, disintegrating bindings, foxing, cockling, or crumbling paper, we could still preserve the artifact with a variety of proven conservation and preservation techniques.
    Ex. C120 tape is extremely thin and it may stretch, crinkle or spill out of the cassette.
    Ex. Umbilical cords shrivel up and fall off, leaving a neat little tummy button after about a week or so.
    Ex. All the blooms have turned brown and died and most of the smaller, newer leaves have shrivelled and died too.
    * * *
    (v.) = cockle, crinkle, shrivel up, shrivel

    Ex: Despite the deterioration of the manuscript or printed book because of fading inks, disintegrating bindings, foxing, cockling, or crumbling paper, we could still preserve the artifact with a variety of proven conservation and preservation techniques.

    Ex: C120 tape is extremely thin and it may stretch, crinkle or spill out of the cassette.
    Ex: Umbilical cords shrivel up and fall off, leaving a neat little tummy button after about a week or so.
    Ex: All the blooms have turned brown and died and most of the smaller, newer leaves have shrivelled and died too.

    * * *

    ■arrugarse verbo reflexivo
    1 (la cara) to wrinkle
    (la tela, papel, etc) to crease
    2 no se arruga frente a las situaciones difíciles, he isn't daunted by difficult situations
    ' arrugarse' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    arrugar
    English:
    crease
    - shrivel
    - wrinkle
    - crinkle
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    vpr
    1. [ropa, papel] to get creased
    2. [piel] to get wrinkled;
    se le arrugaron las yemas de los dedos [en el baño] his fingertips wrinkled up
    3. Fam [acobardarse] to chicken out;
    iba a reclamar pero al final se arrugó he was going to complain, but in the end he chickened out
    * * *
    v/r de piel, ropa get wrinkled
    * * *
    vr

    Spanish-English dictionary > arrugarse

  • 11 bofo

    adj.
    1 spongy, fozy.
    2 flabby.
    * * *
    - fa adjetivo (Méx fam) flabby
    * * *
    = spongy, flabby [flabbier -comp., flabbiest -sup.].
    Ex. Paper is brittle and crumbling, bindings are disintegrating, print is fading and covers are soft and spongy.
    Ex. Ladies bemoan their fat tummies, wobbly thighs, bulging hips and flabby thighs.
    * * *
    - fa adjetivo (Méx fam) flabby
    * * *
    = spongy, flabby [flabbier -comp., flabbiest -sup.].

    Ex: Paper is brittle and crumbling, bindings are disintegrating, print is fading and covers are soft and spongy.

    Ex: Ladies bemoan their fat tummies, wobbly thighs, bulging hips and flabby thighs.

    * * *
    bofo -fa
    ( Méx fam) flabby
    * * *
    bofo, -fa adj
    : flabby

    Spanish-English dictionary > bofo

  • 12 cacharro

    m.
    1 pot.
    fregar los cacharros to do the dishes
    2 piece of junk (informal).
    4 rickety car, noisy old car, jalopy, buggy.
    5 old boat.
    6 old plane.
    * * *
    1 (de cocina) crock, piece of crockery
    2 familiar (cosa) thing, piece of junk
    ■ ¿qué es ese cacharro? what's that thing over there?
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    noun m.
    object, piece of junk
    * * *
    SM
    1) [de cocina] pot, dish

    fregar los cacharros — to do o wash the dishes

    2) * (=trasto) useless object, piece of junk; (Aut) old crock, jalop(p)y; And trinket
    3) * (=aparato) gadget
    4) ** (=pistola) rod **, pistol
    5) CAm, Caribe (=cárcel) jail
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    1) ( de cocina) pot
    2) (fam) ( cachivache) thing; ( coche viejo) jalopy (AmE), old banger (BrE colloq); ( aparato) gadget
    * * *
    = gizmo [gismo], jalopy, whatchamacallit.
    Nota: Expresión utilizada para referirse a un objeto del que no se recuerda el nombre; abreviatura de 'What do you call it?'.
    Ex. Within, you will find a pleathora of gadgets and gizmos, ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime.
    Ex. For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    Ex. In his book's section ' Watchamacallit' he forecasts that communication between user and machine will be through voice for entering text and a pen-like device for pointing.
    * * *
    1) ( de cocina) pot
    2) (fam) ( cachivache) thing; ( coche viejo) jalopy (AmE), old banger (BrE colloq); ( aparato) gadget
    * * *
    = gizmo [gismo], jalopy, whatchamacallit.
    Nota: Expresión utilizada para referirse a un objeto del que no se recuerda el nombre; abreviatura de 'What do you call it?'.

    Ex: Within, you will find a pleathora of gadgets and gizmos, ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime.

    Ex: For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    Ex: In his book's section ' Watchamacallit' he forecasts that communication between user and machine will be through voice for entering text and a pen-like device for pointing.

    * * *
    deja los cacharros para mañana leave the pots and pans for tomorrow
    B ( fam)
    1 (cachivache) thing
    tiene la casa llena de cacharros que no sirven para nada her house is full of junk o useless things
    2 (coche) jalopy ( AmE), old banger ( BrE colloq)
    3 (aparato) gadget
    * * *

    cacharro sustantivo masculino

    b) (fam) ( cachivache) thing;

    ( coche viejo) jalopy (AmE), old banger (BrE colloq);
    ( aparato) gadget
    cacharro sustantivo masculino
    1 (de loza) earthenware pot o jar
    2 familiar (objeto inservible o viejo) thing, piece of junk
    3 cacharros pl, (de cocina) pots and pans
    fregar los cacharros, to do the washing-up
    ' cacharro' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    chisme
    English:
    banger
    - battered
    - heap
    - lemon
    - rickety
    - thing
    - whatsit
    - wreck
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    1. [recipiente] pot;
    fregar los cacharros to do the dishes
    2. Fam [trasto] piece of junk;
    tendremos que tirar todos estos cacharros we'll have to throw all this junk o Br rubbish out
    3. Fam [máquina] crock;
    [automóvil] heap, banger
    4. Fam [aparato, chisme] gadget, gizmo;
    aprietas este cacharro y sale agua press this thing o gizmo here and water comes out
    * * *
    m
    1 pot;
    lavar los cacharros Méx, C.Am. wash the dishes
    2 Méx, C.Am. ( trasto) piece of junk
    3 Méx, C.Am.
    coche junkheap
    * * *
    1) fam : thing, piece of junk
    2) fam : jalopy
    3) cacharros nmpl
    : pots and pans
    * * *
    1. (recipiente) pot / pan
    2. (coche) old banger
    3. (trasto) piece of junk

    Spanish-English dictionary > cacharro

  • 13 cayéndose a pedazos

    (adj.) = disintegrating
    Ex. For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    * * *

    Ex: For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.

    Spanish-English dictionary > cayéndose a pedazos

  • 14 chatarra

    f.
    1 scrap (metal) (metal).
    2 junk (objetos, piezas).
    3 cheap and nasty jewelry (informal) (joyas).
    4 small change (informal) (monedas).
    5 scrap metal, waste iron, scrap iron, old iron.
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    1 (escoria) slag
    2 (hierro viejo) scrap iron, scrap
    4 familiar peyorativo (joyas) junk jewellery (US jewelry)
    5 familiar figurado (trasto) piece of junk
    \
    parque de chatarra scrap yard
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF scrap, scrap iron
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo invariable (Méx)
    II
    1) (Metal) scrap (metal)
    2) (fam) ( calderilla) change, small o loose change
    * * *
    = scrap, scrap metal, lemon, jalopy, cruft.
    Ex. The demand for the old faces came to an abrupt end and the founders withdrew them from sale, some even destroying the old punches and matrices as so much scrap.
    Ex. It may look like junk, but to thieves scrap metal has become as good as gold.
    Ex. The California Lemon Law act applies not only to defective cars (or ' lemons') but recreational vehicles as well.
    Ex. For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    Ex. This cruft doesn't harm the system, it merely takes up some space.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo invariable (Méx)
    II
    1) (Metal) scrap (metal)
    2) (fam) ( calderilla) change, small o loose change
    * * *
    = scrap, scrap metal, lemon, jalopy, cruft.

    Ex: The demand for the old faces came to an abrupt end and the founders withdrew them from sale, some even destroying the old punches and matrices as so much scrap.

    Ex: It may look like junk, but to thieves scrap metal has become as good as gold.
    Ex: The California Lemon Law act applies not only to defective cars (or ' lemons') but recreational vehicles as well.
    Ex: For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    Ex: This cruft doesn't harm the system, it merely takes up some space.

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    ( Méx): comida chatarra junk food
    productos chatarra cheap o shoddy goods
    empresas chatarra second-rate companies
    A ( Metal) scrap, scrap metal
    el coche es pura chatarra the car is just a heap of scrap
    B ( fam) (calderilla) change, small o loose change
    * * *

    chatarra adjetivo invariable (Méx):

    productos chatarra cheap goods
    ■ sustantivo femenino (Metal) scrap (metal);
    el coche es pura chatarra the car is just a heap of scrap
    chatarra sustantivo femenino
    1 scrap (metal), scrap iron
    2 familiar (piece of) junk

    ' chatarra' also found in these entries:
    English:
    rickety
    - scrap
    - scrap iron
    - junk food
    - junkyard
    * * *
    1. [metal] scrap (metal)
    2. [objetos, piezas] junk
    3. Fam [joyas] cheap and nasty jewellery;
    este anillo es pura chatarra this ring is a piece of tat
    4. Fam [condecoraciones] brass, medals;
    un general cargado de chatarra a general weighed down with medals
    5. Fam [monedas] small change
    6. Méx Fam [comida] junk food
    * * *
    f scrap
    * * *
    : scrap metal
    * * *
    1. (metal) scrap
    2. (monedas) small change

    Spanish-English dictionary > chatarra

  • 15 coche viejo

    (n.) = lemon, jalopy
    Ex. The California Lemon Law act applies not only to defective cars (or ' lemons') but recreational vehicles as well.
    Ex. For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    * * *
    (n.) = lemon, jalopy

    Ex: The California Lemon Law act applies not only to defective cars (or ' lemons') but recreational vehicles as well.

    Ex: For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.

    Spanish-English dictionary > coche viejo

  • 16 contaminador

    adj.
    contaminating, polluting.
    m.
    contaminant, pollutant, polluter.
    * * *
    1 contaminating (de agua, aire) polluting
    * * *
    contaminador, -a
    SM / F polluter
    * * *
    = toxin-belching, polluter.
    Ex. For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    Ex. A survey of travel habits has revealed that the most environmentally conscious people are also the biggest polluters.
    * * *
    = toxin-belching, polluter.

    Ex: For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.

    Ex: A survey of travel habits has revealed that the most environmentally conscious people are also the biggest polluters.

    * * *
    pollutant
    masculine, feminine
    polluter, pollutant

    Spanish-English dictionary > contaminador

  • 17 descolorar

    v.
    1 to fade.
    2 to discolor, to bleach, to decolorize, to fade.
    * * *
    1 to discolour (US discolor), fade (pelo) to bleach
    1 to lose colour (US color), fade
    * * *
    * * *
    = discolour, fox.
    Ex. These tapes effect a permanent repair and do not discolour.
    Ex. Despite the deterioration of the manuscript or printed book because of fading inks, disintegrating bindings, foxing, cockling, or crumbling paper, we could still preserve the artifact with a variety of proven conservation and preservation techniques.
    * * *
    = discolour, fox.

    Ex: These tapes effect a permanent repair and do not discolour.

    Ex: Despite the deterioration of the manuscript or printed book because of fading inks, disintegrating bindings, foxing, cockling, or crumbling paper, we could still preserve the artifact with a variety of proven conservation and preservation techniques.

    * * *
    descolorar [A1 ]
    vt
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    to fade
    * * *
    v/t bleach

    Spanish-English dictionary > descolorar

  • 18 desintegrar

    v.
    1 to disintegrate (objetos).
    El impacto desintegró las columnas The impact disintegrated the columns.
    2 to break up (grupos, organizaciones).
    3 to divide into smaller groups, to bust up.
    El supervisor desintegró el grupo The supervisor bust up the group.
    * * *
    1 to disintegrate
    2 figurado to disintegrate, break up
    3 FÍSICA to split
    1 to disintegrate
    2 figurado to break up
    3 FÍSICA to split
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ grupo] to break up
    2) [+ roca, cohete] to disintegrate
    3) [+ átomo] to split
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    ----
    * desintegrarse = disintegrate, fall + apart, decompose, come apart at + the seams, fall apart at + the seams.
    * que se está desintegrando = crumbling, disintegrating.
    * * *
    * desintegrarse = disintegrate, fall + apart, decompose, come apart at + the seams, fall apart at + the seams.
    * que se está desintegrando = crumbling, disintegrating.
    * * *
    vt
    1 ‹grupo/partido› to break up; ‹familia› to break up
    2 ‹cuerpo/materia› to break up, disintegrate; ‹átomo› to split
    1 «grupo/partido» to break up, disintegrate; «familia» to break up
    2 «cuerpo/materia» to break up, disintegrate; «átomo» to split, disintegrate
    * * *

    desintegrar vtr, desintegrarse verbo reflexivo to disintegrate
    ' desintegrar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    desintegrarse
    English:
    split
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [objeto, materia] to break into pieces;
    [átomo] to split;
    el rayo desintegró la nave espacial the ray disintegrated the spaceship
    2. [grupo, organización, familia] to break up
    * * *
    v/t
    1 FÍS cause to disintegrate, disintegrate
    2 grupo de gente break up
    * * *
    : to disintegrate, to break up

    Spanish-English dictionary > desintegrar

  • 19 deterioro

    m.
    1 damage (daño).
    el deterioro de la situación the worsening of o deterioration in the situation
    2 deterioration, damage, impairment, staleness.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: deteriorar.
    * * *
    1 (daño) damage, deterioration; (desgaste) wear and tear
    2 figurado (empeoramiento) deterioration, worsening
    \
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) worsening, decline
    2) deterioration, wear
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=daño) damage

    sin deterioro de sus derechos — without affecting his rights, without impinging on his rights más frm

    2) (=empeoramiento) deterioration
    3) (Mec) wear and tear
    * * *
    a) (de edificio, muebles) deterioration, wear
    b) ( empeoramiento) deterioration, worsening
    * * *
    = damage, decay, deterioration, impairment, embrittlement, slippage, degradation, degeneration, rot, decline, rack and ruin, worsening, dilapidation.
    Ex. Wastage is sometimes defined as material which temporarily or permanently has evaded the usual lending procedures due to misplacement, damage, non-registration, theft or non-returns.
    Ex. Nevertheless, deacidification alone will not stop the decay unless soluble copper compounds are removed from the object or converted to chemically inert compounds.
    Ex. And thirdly and most importantly, I am concerned about some movements which I think symptomatize ideological deterioration and would have us, as someone put it, march boldly backwards into the future.
    Ex. A well-designed multimodal application can be used by people with a wide variety of impairments.
    Ex. This article considers the need for a survey of modern printed book collections, in the context of the embrittlement of book papers.
    Ex. The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) also publishes FAO Books in Print on an intended annual cycle but the programme has been subject to slippage in recent years.
    Ex. This article describes how the property of chemiluminescence -- the faint emission of light from organic materials undergoing oxidisation -- may be used to measure the rate of degradation of paper.
    Ex. The article 'The degeneration of the work of man' examines the work of hunter/gathers, farmers, factory workers, and information handlers from the Ice Age to the Information Age.
    Ex. The article 'Stop the rot!' reports on a half-day seminar on audiovisual conservation.
    Ex. Library automation was in its ascendancy at precisely the same time that the nation's economy was firmly embarked on its present calamitous decline.
    Ex. The policies that the Mugabe government have taken have lead the country to economic and political rack and ruin.
    Ex. We have also considered other possible mechanisms to explain the worsening of hypokalemia in this patient.
    Ex. If Central Park is to be rescued from the general dilapidation it is much money and energy intelligently directed must be expended.
    ----
    * acelerar el proceso de deterioro = hasten + rot.
    * deterioro biológico = biodeterioration.
    * deterioro cognitivo = cognitive impairment.
    * deterioro del CDROM = CD rot.
    * deterioro de los discos = disc rot.
    * deterioro de los enlaces = link rot.
    * deterioro de propiedad alquilada = dilapidation.
    * en deterioro = deteriorating, crumbling, decaying, dilapidated, disintegrating.
    * en estado de deterioro = decaying, dilapidated.
    * * *
    a) (de edificio, muebles) deterioration, wear
    b) ( empeoramiento) deterioration, worsening
    * * *
    = damage, decay, deterioration, impairment, embrittlement, slippage, degradation, degeneration, rot, decline, rack and ruin, worsening, dilapidation.

    Ex: Wastage is sometimes defined as material which temporarily or permanently has evaded the usual lending procedures due to misplacement, damage, non-registration, theft or non-returns.

    Ex: Nevertheless, deacidification alone will not stop the decay unless soluble copper compounds are removed from the object or converted to chemically inert compounds.
    Ex: And thirdly and most importantly, I am concerned about some movements which I think symptomatize ideological deterioration and would have us, as someone put it, march boldly backwards into the future.
    Ex: A well-designed multimodal application can be used by people with a wide variety of impairments.
    Ex: This article considers the need for a survey of modern printed book collections, in the context of the embrittlement of book papers.
    Ex: The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) also publishes FAO Books in Print on an intended annual cycle but the programme has been subject to slippage in recent years.
    Ex: This article describes how the property of chemiluminescence -- the faint emission of light from organic materials undergoing oxidisation -- may be used to measure the rate of degradation of paper.
    Ex: The article 'The degeneration of the work of man' examines the work of hunter/gathers, farmers, factory workers, and information handlers from the Ice Age to the Information Age.
    Ex: The article 'Stop the rot!' reports on a half-day seminar on audiovisual conservation.
    Ex: Library automation was in its ascendancy at precisely the same time that the nation's economy was firmly embarked on its present calamitous decline.
    Ex: The policies that the Mugabe government have taken have lead the country to economic and political rack and ruin.
    Ex: We have also considered other possible mechanisms to explain the worsening of hypokalemia in this patient.
    Ex: If Central Park is to be rescued from the general dilapidation it is much money and energy intelligently directed must be expended.
    * acelerar el proceso de deterioro = hasten + rot.
    * deterioro biológico = biodeterioration.
    * deterioro cognitivo = cognitive impairment.
    * deterioro del CDROM = CD rot.
    * deterioro de los discos = disc rot.
    * deterioro de los enlaces = link rot.
    * deterioro de propiedad alquilada = dilapidation.
    * en deterioro = deteriorating, crumbling, decaying, dilapidated, disintegrating.
    * en estado de deterioro = decaying, dilapidated.

    * * *
    1 (de un edificio, muebles) deterioration, wear
    2 (empeoramiento) deterioration, worsening
    el deterioro de las relaciones entre los dos países the deterioration in relations o the worsening of relations between the two countries
    su salud ha sufrido un considerable deterioro his health has deteriorated considerably
    el deterioro de la calidad de la enseñanza the decline in the quality of education
    * * *

     

    Del verbo deteriorar: ( conjugate deteriorar)

    deterioro es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    deterioró es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    deteriorar    
    deterioro
    deteriorar ( conjugate deteriorar) verbo transitivo ‹relaciones/salud/situación› to cause … to deteriorate
    deteriorarse verbo pronominal [relaciones/salud/situación] to deteriorate, worsen;
    [ mercancías] to get damaged
    deterioro sustantivo masculino
    a) (de edificio, muebles) deterioration, wear


    deteriorar verbo transitivo to spoil, damage
    deterioro sustantivo masculino
    1 (de la salud, las relaciones, etc) deterioration: he notado un marcado deterioro en su estado de salud, I've noticed that her health has deteriorated considerably
    2 (de un cuadro, edificio) damage: estos edificios han sufrido un deterioro notable, these buildings have deteriorated quite a bit
    (de una máquina, zapatos, etc) wear: es normal que después de un uso intensivo los zapatos muestren señales de deterioro, it's normal for shoes to show wear and tear after constant use
    ' deterioro' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    causa
    - daño
    - decadencia
    - frenar
    English:
    damage
    - decline
    - deterioration
    - decay
    - degeneration
    * * *
    1. [daño] damage;
    sufrir deterioro to be damaged;
    la mercancía no sufrió deterioro alguno the goods were not damaged at all
    2. [empeoramiento] deterioration;
    las relaciones entre ambos países han experimentado un serio deterioro relations between the two countries have deteriorated considerably;
    el deterioro de la situación the worsening of o deterioration in the situation;
    el progresivo deterioro de los servicios públicos the progressive deterioration in public services;
    el deterioro medioambiental the deterioration of the environment
    * * *
    m deterioration
    * * *
    1) : deterioration, wear
    2) : worsening, decline

    Spanish-English dictionary > deterioro

  • 20 emanador de toxinas

    Ex. For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
    * * *

    Ex: For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.

    Spanish-English dictionary > emanador de toxinas

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