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decimate

  • 1 matar en gran número

    • decimate

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > matar en gran número

  • 2 matar indiscriminadamente

    • decimate

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > matar indiscriminadamente

  • 3 sacrificar en gran número

    • decimate

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > sacrificar en gran número

  • 4 diezmar

    • decimate
    • demolish
    • destroy

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > diezmar

  • 5 diezmar

    v.
    1 to decimate.
    2 to pay the tithe to.
    * * *
    1 to decimate
    * * *
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to decimate
    * * *
    Ex. Insect pests decimate a significant proportion of the world's food supply and transmit a number of deadly human diseases.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to decimate
    * * *

    Ex: Insect pests decimate a significant proportion of the world's food supply and transmit a number of deadly human diseases.

    * * *
    diezmar [A1 ]
    vt
    to decimate
    * * *

    diezmar verbo transitivo to decimate, destroy: el fuerte temporal ha diezmado la cosecha de trigo, the heavy storm decimated the wheat crop
    ' diezmar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    decimate
    * * *
    to decimate
    * * *
    v/t decimate

    Spanish-English dictionary > diezmar

  • 6 aniquilar

    v.
    1 to annihilate, to wipe out.
    2 to exterminate, to destroy, to kill, to annihilate.
    * * *
    1 to annihilate, destroy
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=destruir) [+ enemigo] to annihilate, destroy; [+ equipo rival] to crush, annihilate
    2) (=matar) to kill
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo transitivo <enemigo/población> to annihilate, wipe out; <defensas/instalaciones> to destroy
    * * *
    = wipe out, massacre, decimate, annihilate, zap.
    Ex. Strong economic forces, inflation and an over-strong pound wiped out any noticeable benefits of EEC membership to industry.
    Ex. In the 1994 Rwandan genocide, 800,000 people were massacred.
    Ex. Insect pests decimate a significant proportion of the world's food supply and transmit a number of deadly human diseases.
    Ex. He intends to annihilate all the major world powers, until Islamic nations dominate the planet.
    Ex. This electric fly swatter will zap any fly or mosquito with 1500 volts.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo <enemigo/población> to annihilate, wipe out; <defensas/instalaciones> to destroy
    * * *
    = wipe out, massacre, decimate, annihilate, zap.

    Ex: Strong economic forces, inflation and an over-strong pound wiped out any noticeable benefits of EEC membership to industry.

    Ex: In the 1994 Rwandan genocide, 800,000 people were massacred.
    Ex: Insect pests decimate a significant proportion of the world's food supply and transmit a number of deadly human diseases.
    Ex: He intends to annihilate all the major world powers, until Islamic nations dominate the planet.
    Ex: This electric fly swatter will zap any fly or mosquito with 1500 volts.

    * * *
    aniquilar [A1 ]
    vt
    ‹enemigo/población› to annihilate, wipe out; ‹defensas/instalaciones› to destroy, obliterate
    la gripe que tuvo lo ha aniquilado that bout of flu he had has left him terribly weak o ( colloq) has really wiped him out
    los nervios la tienen aniquilada she's a nervous wreck
    la aniquiló 6-0, 6-0 she crushed her 6-0, 6-0
    me aniquiló con sus argumentos he crushed o annihilated o destroyed me with his arguments
    es tan dominante que lo ha aniquilado como persona she's so domineering that she has completely wiped out o destroyed his personality
    * * *

    aniquilar ( conjugate aniquilar) verbo transitivoenemigo/población to annihilate, wipe out;
    defensas/instalaciones to destroy
    aniquilar verbo transitivo to annihilate
    ' aniquilar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    annihilate
    - rout
    - wipe out
    - wipe
    * * *
    1. [destruir] to annihilate, to wipe out;
    los nazis aniquilaron a los judíos the Nazis exterminated the Jews;
    el candidato oficial aniquiló a la oposición the official candidate annihilated o destroyed the opposition;
    los tenistas suecos aniquilaron a sus rivales the Swedish tennis players annihilated o thrashed their opponents
    2. [abatir] to destroy;
    tres años en paro la aniquilaron moralmente three years of unemployment had totally demoralized her
    * * *
    v/t annihilate
    * * *
    1) : to annihilate, to wipe out
    2) : to overwhelm, to bring to one's knees

    Spanish-English dictionary > aniquilar

  • 7 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
    * * *

     

    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

  • 8 exterminar

    v.
    1 to exterminate.
    2 to destroy, to devastate.
    * * *
    1 (suprimir) to exterminate, wipe out; (destruir) to destroy
    * * *
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to exterminate
    * * *
    = eradicate, wipe out, exterminate, decimate, kill off, annihilate, stomp + Nombre + out.
    Ex. In this instance links would be insufficient to eradicate the false drop.
    Ex. Strong economic forces, inflation and an over-strong pound wiped out any noticeable benefits of EEC membership to industry.
    Ex. This article reports on the modification and use of a supermarket ice cream freezer to exterminate insects.
    Ex. Insect pests decimate a significant proportion of the world's food supply and transmit a number of deadly human diseases.
    Ex. 'Hyperindividualised' news was always one of the reasons the internet was supposed to be going to kill off print.
    Ex. He intends to annihilate all the major world powers, until Islamic nations dominate the planet.
    Ex. Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to exterminate
    * * *
    = eradicate, wipe out, exterminate, decimate, kill off, annihilate, stomp + Nombre + out.

    Ex: In this instance links would be insufficient to eradicate the false drop.

    Ex: Strong economic forces, inflation and an over-strong pound wiped out any noticeable benefits of EEC membership to industry.
    Ex: This article reports on the modification and use of a supermarket ice cream freezer to exterminate insects.
    Ex: Insect pests decimate a significant proportion of the world's food supply and transmit a number of deadly human diseases.
    Ex: 'Hyperindividualised' news was always one of the reasons the internet was supposed to be going to kill off print.
    Ex: He intends to annihilate all the major world powers, until Islamic nations dominate the planet.
    Ex: Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.

    * * *
    exterminar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ‹ratas/insectos› to exterminate
    2 ‹raza/población› to wipe out, exterminate
    * * *

    exterminar ( conjugate exterminar) verbo transitivo
    to exterminate
    exterminar verbo transitivo to exerminate
    ' exterminar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    exterminate
    - wipe out
    - wipe
    * * *
    to exterminate
    * * *
    v/t exterminate, wipe out
    * * *
    : to exterminate

    Spanish-English dictionary > exterminar

  • 9 matar indiscriminadamente

    v.
    to decimate, to annihilate, to massacre.
    * * *
    (v.) = take + no prisoners
    Ex. They began taking no prisoners, burning whole villages, and routinely shooting surrendering Filipinos.
    * * *
    (v.) = take + no prisoners

    Ex: They began taking no prisoners, burning whole villages, and routinely shooting surrendering Filipinos.

    Spanish-English dictionary > matar indiscriminadamente

  • 10 rediezmar

    v.
    to decimate again, to tithe a second time.

    Spanish-English dictionary > rediezmar

См. также в других словарях:

  • Decimate — Dec i*mate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Decimated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Decimating}.] [L. decimatus, p. p. of decimare to decimate (in senses 1 & 2), fr. decimus tenth. See {Decimal}.] 1. To take the tenth part of; to tithe. Johnson. [1913 Webster] 2. To… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • decimate — has changed its meaning because the old one is no longer needed. Historically, decimate means ‘to kill one person in ten’, and had its origin in military punishments. As the need for this meaning diminished, a new one emerged, the now familiar… …   Modern English usage

  • decimate — ► VERB 1) kill or destroy a large proportion of. 2) drastically reduce the strength of. DERIVATIVES decimation noun. USAGE The earliest sense of decimate was ‘kill one in every ten of’, a reference to the ancient Roman practice of killing one in… …   English terms dictionary

  • decimate — index destroy (efface), diminish, disarm (divest of arms), eliminate (eradicate), lessen, minimize …   Law dictionary

  • decimate — c.1600, in reference to the practice of punishing mutinous military units by capital execution of one in every 10, by lot; from L. decimatus, pp. of decimare (see DECIMATION (Cf. decimation)). Killing one in ten, chosen by lots, from a rebellious …   Etymology dictionary

  • decimate — [v] destroy annihilate, butcher*, commit genocide, execute, exterminate, kill off, massacre, obliterate, slaughter, stamp out, wipe out; concept 252 …   New thesaurus

  • decimate — [des′ə māt΄] vt. decimated, decimating [< L decimatus, pp. of decimare < decem, TEN] 1. Obs. to select by lot and kill every tenth one of 2. to destroy or kill a large part of [famine decimated the population] 3. Obs. to take a tenth part… …   English World dictionary

  • decimate — [[t]de̱sɪmeɪt[/t]] decimates, decimating, decimated 1) VERB To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them. [V n] The pollution could decimate the river s thriving population of kingfishers …   English dictionary

  • decimate — decimation, n. decimator, n. /des euh mayt /, v.t., decimated, decimating. 1. to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague. 2. to select by lot and kill every tenth person of. 3. Obs. to take a tenth of or… …   Universalium

  • decimate — verb Decimate is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑injury Decimate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑army …   Collocations dictionary

  • decimate — UK [ˈdesɪmeɪt] / US [ˈdesɪˌmeɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms decimate : present tense I/you/we/they decimate he/she/it decimates present participle decimating past tense decimated past participle decimated to spoil or destroy something, for… …   English dictionary


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