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gut-wrenching

  • 1 desgarrador

    adj.
    heartbreaking, harrowing, tearing, heartrending.
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    1 heartbreaking, heart-rending
    2 (aterrador) bloodcurdling
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    ADJ [escena, noticia] heartbreaking, heartrending; [grito] piercing; [emoción] heartrending
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    - dora adjetivo heartbreaking, heartrending
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    = lancinating, heart-rending, heart-rendering, gut-wrenching, heart-wrenching, heartbreaking.
    Ex. The personnel officer experienced an involuntary shiver as the lancinating reality of the board's decision sank in.
    Ex. Their heart-rending plight stretching over centuries is a blot on Indian civilization.
    Ex. The book makes harrowing reading, charting the relentless disintegration of Schumann's mental and physical faculties, with equally heart-rendering intervals of lucidity and self-awareness.
    Ex. In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
    Ex. Which just goes to show that truth is always, always, always more amazing, more heart-wrenching, more fantastic than anyone's imagination.
    Ex. These are some of the most gripping, and most heartbreaking, pictures so far from Haiti in the aftermath of yesterday's devastating earthquake.
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    - dora adjetivo heartbreaking, heartrending
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    = lancinating, heart-rending, heart-rendering, gut-wrenching, heart-wrenching, heartbreaking.

    Ex: The personnel officer experienced an involuntary shiver as the lancinating reality of the board's decision sank in.

    Ex: Their heart-rending plight stretching over centuries is a blot on Indian civilization.
    Ex: The book makes harrowing reading, charting the relentless disintegration of Schumann's mental and physical faculties, with equally heart-rendering intervals of lucidity and self-awareness.
    Ex: In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
    Ex: Which just goes to show that truth is always, always, always more amazing, more heart-wrenching, more fantastic than anyone's imagination.
    Ex: These are some of the most gripping, and most heartbreaking, pictures so far from Haiti in the aftermath of yesterday's devastating earthquake.

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    heartbreaking, heartrending
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    desgarrador
    ◊ - dora adjetivo

    heartbreaking, heartrending
    desgarrador,-ora adjetivo
    1 (que causa pena, angustia) heart-rending
    2 (que causa horror) bloodcurdling

    ' desgarrador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    desgarradora
    English:
    heart-breaking
    - harrowing
    - heart
    - piercing
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    desgarrador, -ora adj
    [grito] piercing; [llanto] heart-rending; [noticia] harrowing; [tragedia] terrible
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    adj heart-rending
    * * *
    : heartrending, heartbreaking

    Spanish-English dictionary > desgarrador

  • 2 agobiante

    adj.
    1 overwhelming.
    2 exhausting, backbreaking, tough, arduous.
    3 tiresome.
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    1 (cansado) backbreaking, exhausting
    2 (abrumado) overwhelming
    3 (lugar) claustrophobic; (calor) oppressive
    4 (persona) tiresome, tiring
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    adj.
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    ADJ
    1) [calor, ambiente, lugar] oppressive

    un día de verano agobiante — a stifling o sweltering summer's day

    2) (=insoportable) [trabajo, día] stressful; [pena, ritmo] unbearable; [responsabilidad] overwhelming
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    adjetivo, agobiador - dora adjetivo <trabajo/día> exhausting; < calor> stifling

    es una carga agobiante para él — it's/he's/she's a terrible burden on him

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    = oppressive, overpowering, stifling, suffocating, sultry [sultrier -comp., sultriest -sup.], crippling, gut-wrenching, nightmarish.
    Ex. Holman has decided we must see Slake's background, and it is as bleak and oppressive as one supposed it must be.
    Ex. The librarian should at all times try to place himself in the position of the reader and ask just how much information will be useful without becoming overpowering.
    Ex. He calls for various strategies of resistance to counter the stifling hand of capitalism on Western culture.
    Ex. In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex. The day was sultry, and some of the party, being parched with thirst, left the line of march, and scrambled down the bank of the river to drink.
    Ex. Can we avoid racism, sexism and the crippling effects of other forms of prejudicial stereotyping without recourse to censorship?.
    Ex. In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
    Ex. It was the drugs that made me mad: Jane was anorexic, but the treatment prescribed pushed her over the edge for 22 nightmarish years.
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    adjetivo, agobiador - dora adjetivo <trabajo/día> exhausting; < calor> stifling

    es una carga agobiante para él — it's/he's/she's a terrible burden on him

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    = oppressive, overpowering, stifling, suffocating, sultry [sultrier -comp., sultriest -sup.], crippling, gut-wrenching, nightmarish.

    Ex: Holman has decided we must see Slake's background, and it is as bleak and oppressive as one supposed it must be.

    Ex: The librarian should at all times try to place himself in the position of the reader and ask just how much information will be useful without becoming overpowering.
    Ex: He calls for various strategies of resistance to counter the stifling hand of capitalism on Western culture.
    Ex: In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex: The day was sultry, and some of the party, being parched with thirst, left the line of march, and scrambled down the bank of the river to drink.
    Ex: Can we avoid racism, sexism and the crippling effects of other forms of prejudicial stereotyping without recourse to censorship?.
    Ex: In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
    Ex: It was the drugs that made me mad: Jane was anorexic, but the treatment prescribed pushed her over the edge for 22 nightmarish years.

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    adj,
    agobiador - dora adjective ‹trabajo/día› exhausting; ‹calor› stifling
    hacía un calor agobiante it was stifling o oppressively hot
    resultó ser una carga agobiante para él it turned out to be a terrible o crushing burden on him
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    agobiante,
    ◊ agobiador -dora adjetivo ‹trabajo/día› exhausting;


    ‹ calor› stifling;
    ◊ es una carga agobiante para él it's/he's/she's a terrible burden on him

    agobiante adjetivo
    1 (trabajo) overwhelming
    2 (espacio cerrado) claustrophobic
    3 (clima, temperatura) oppressive
    4 (persona) tiresome, tiring

    ' agobiante' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    calor
    English:
    boiling
    - burdensome
    - oppressive
    - stifling
    - suffocating
    - crippling
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    [presión, trabajo, persona] overwhelming; [calor] stifling; [ambiente] oppressive;
    problemas agobiantes overwhelming problems;
    trabajo agobiante backbreaking work
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    adj
    1 trabajo exhausting
    2 calor stifling
    * * *
    1) : exhausting, overwhelming
    2) : stifling, oppressive

    Spanish-English dictionary > agobiante

  • 3 angustioso

    adj.
    distressful, anguished, agonizing, distressing.
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    1 (situación) distressing, worrying; (mirada) anguished
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    (f. - angustiosa)
    adj.
    1) anguished, distressed
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    ADJ
    1) (=angustiado) [sensación] distressed, anguished; [voz, mirada] anguished
    2) (=agobiante) [habitación, espacio] oppressive; [problema, recuerdo, situación] distressing
    3) (=doloroso) (lit) agonizing; (fig) heartbreaking
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    - sa adjetivo < situación> distressing; <mirada/grito> anguished
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    = harrowing, agonising [agonizing, -USA], agonised [agonized, -USA], distressing, gut-wrenching, nightmarish.
    Ex. See Michael R. Booth, 'English Melodrama', for further details of this harrowing tale.
    Ex. Much of the conventional wisdom of librarianship is going to have to undergo what is so aptly described as an ' agonizing reappraisal' before we can come to terms with the new information age.
    Ex. He went back into the house, addressing his Maker in low agonized tones, changed, and started out again.
    Ex. It really is distressing to observe in some libraries the casual and perfunctory way in which enquirers obviously seeking help are treated as persons.
    Ex. In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
    Ex. It was the drugs that made me mad: Jane was anorexic, but the treatment prescribed pushed her over the edge for 22 nightmarish years.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo < situación> distressing; <mirada/grito> anguished
    * * *
    = harrowing, agonising [agonizing, -USA], agonised [agonized, -USA], distressing, gut-wrenching, nightmarish.

    Ex: See Michael R. Booth, 'English Melodrama', for further details of this harrowing tale.

    Ex: Much of the conventional wisdom of librarianship is going to have to undergo what is so aptly described as an ' agonizing reappraisal' before we can come to terms with the new information age.
    Ex: He went back into the house, addressing his Maker in low agonized tones, changed, and started out again.
    Ex: It really is distressing to observe in some libraries the casual and perfunctory way in which enquirers obviously seeking help are treated as persons.
    Ex: In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
    Ex: It was the drugs that made me mad: Jane was anorexic, but the treatment prescribed pushed her over the edge for 22 nightmarish years.

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    ‹situación› distressing; ‹mirada/grito› anguished
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    angustioso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo ‹ situación› distressing;


    ‹mirada/grito› anguished
    angustioso,-a adjetivo distressing
    ' angustioso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    angustiosa
    - desesperante
    English:
    distressing
    - nerve-racking
    - agonizing
    - harrowing
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    angustioso, -a adj
    [espera] anxious; [situación, noticia] distressing
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    adj agonizing
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    angustioso, -sa adj
    1) : anguished, distressed
    2) : distressing, worrisome

    Spanish-English dictionary > angustioso

  • 4 atosigante

    adj.
    oppressing, overwhelming.
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    ADJ = atosigador 2)
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    = suffocating, gut-wrenching.
    Ex. In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex. In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
    * * *
    = suffocating, gut-wrenching.

    Ex: In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.

    Ex: In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.

    * * *
    irritating, annoying;
    le hizo muchas preguntas atosigantes she pestered him with questions

    Spanish-English dictionary > atosigante

  • 5 opresivo

    adj.
    oppressive, weighty, burdensome, oppressing.
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    1 oppressive
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    - va adjetivo oppressive
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    = oppressive, heavy-handed, stifling, suffocating, overbearing, gut-wrenching.
    Ex. Holman has decided we must see Slake's background, and it is as bleak and oppressive as one supposed it must be.
    Ex. The often heavy-handed paternalism of Soviet children's literature is being challenged and children are being entrusted with real situations and real problems rather than the idealistic, rose-coloured version of reality previously thought suitable for them.
    Ex. He calls for various strategies of resistance to counter the stifling hand of capitalism on Western culture.
    Ex. In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex. Overbearing parents are likely to raise obsessive kids, according to a new study.
    Ex. In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
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    * de un modo opresivo = oppressively.
    * * *
    - va adjetivo oppressive
    * * *
    = oppressive, heavy-handed, stifling, suffocating, overbearing, gut-wrenching.

    Ex: Holman has decided we must see Slake's background, and it is as bleak and oppressive as one supposed it must be.

    Ex: The often heavy-handed paternalism of Soviet children's literature is being challenged and children are being entrusted with real situations and real problems rather than the idealistic, rose-coloured version of reality previously thought suitable for them.
    Ex: He calls for various strategies of resistance to counter the stifling hand of capitalism on Western culture.
    Ex: In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex: Overbearing parents are likely to raise obsessive kids, according to a new study.
    Ex: In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
    * de un modo opresivo = oppressively.

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    oppressive
    * * *

    opresivo
    ◊ -va adjetivo

    oppressive
    opresivo,-a adjetivo oppressive

    ' opresivo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    opresiva
    English:
    oppressive
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    opresivo, -a adj
    oppressive
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    adj oppressive
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    opresivo, -va adj
    : oppressive

    Spanish-English dictionary > opresivo

  • 6 mantener Algo a salvo

    (v.) = keep + Nombre + out of harm's way
    Ex. In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
    * * *
    (v.) = keep + Nombre + out of harm's way

    Ex: In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.

    Spanish-English dictionary > mantener Algo a salvo

  • 7 mantener Algo fuera de peligro

    (v.) = keep + Nombre + out of harm's way
    Ex. In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
    * * *
    (v.) = keep + Nombre + out of harm's way

    Ex: In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.

    Spanish-English dictionary > mantener Algo fuera de peligro

См. также в других словарях:

  • gut-wrenching — /gut ren ching/, adj. involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut wrenching decision. * * * …   Universalium

  • gut-wrenching — /gut ren ching/, adj. involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut wrenching decision …   Useful english dictionary

  • gut-wrenching — ADJ Gut wrenching events or experiences make you feel extremely shocked or upset. [mainly JOURNALISM] Going to court can be an expensive, time consuming and gut wrenching experience that is best avoided …   English dictionary

  • gut-wrenching — gut wrench•ing adj. cvb involving great distress or anguish; agonizing • Etymology: 1970–75 …   From formal English to slang

  • gut-wrenching — /ˈgʌt rɛntʃɪŋ/ (say gut renching) adjective Colloquial harrowing. –gut wrenchingly, adverb …  

  • gut-wrenching — adjective Date: 1974 causing mental or emotional anguish …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • gut-wrenching — adjective a) sickening b) difficult to tolerate …   Wiktionary

  • gut wrenching — agonizing, extremely distressing, causing a lot of stress …   English contemporary dictionary

  • gut-wrenching — adjective informal extremely unpleasant or upsetting …   English new terms dictionary

  • gut-wrenching — UK [ˈɡʌt ˌrentʃɪŋ] / US adjective making you feel very sad or upset …   English dictionary

  • gut-wrenchingly — adverb In a gut wrenching way …   Wiktionary

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