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1 desgastar
v.1 to wear out.2 to wear down, to fret, to eat away, to rub away.El roce desgasta el cuero Friction wears down leather.3 to exhaust, to play out.El acoso desgasta la mente Harassment exhausts the mind.4 to tire out, to drain.* * *2 (erosionar) to erode3 figurado (debilitar) to weaken1 (gastarse) to wear out, get worn2 figurado (debilitarse) to weaken* * *verbto wear out, wear down* * *1. VT1) [+ ropa, zapatos, tejido, moqueta, neumático] to wear out; [+ tacones, suela] to wear down; [+ superficie] to wear away2) [+ rival, contrincante] to wear down2.VI (=debilitar)veinte años de poder desgastan — after twenty years in power you get stale o run out of steam
3.See:* * *1.verbo transitivob) ( debilitar) to wear... down2.desgastarse v pron* * *= wear out, eat away at.Ex. What we really want is a product that wears out from use over a reasonable amount of time.Ex. Rather than catalog departments going out of business, they could turn their attention once again to cataloging special local materials, eating away at store-rooms of uncataloged materials, and making their collections as a whole more responsive to their local constituency.----* desgastarse = wear off.* no desgastarse fácilmente = wear + well.* sin desgastar = unworn.* * *1.verbo transitivob) ( debilitar) to wear... down2.desgastarse v pron* * *= wear out, eat away at.Ex: What we really want is a product that wears out from use over a reasonable amount of time.
Ex: Rather than catalog departments going out of business, they could turn their attention once again to cataloging special local materials, eating away at store-rooms of uncataloged materials, and making their collections as a whole more responsive to their local constituency.* desgastarse = wear off.* no desgastarse fácilmente = wear + well.* sin desgastar = unworn.* * *desgastar [A1 ]vt1 (gastar) ‹suelas/ropa› to wear out; ‹roca› to wear away, erode2 (debilitar) to wear … down1 (gastarse) «ropa» to wear out; «roca» to wear away; «tacón» to wear down2 «persona» to wear oneself out; «relación» to grow stale* * *
desgastar ( conjugate desgastar) verbo transitivo
‹ roca› to wear away, erode
desgastarse verbo pronominal
[ roca] to wear away;
[ tacón] to wear down
[ relación] to grow stale
desgastar verbo transitivo to wear out
' desgastar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
gastar
English:
eat away
- erode
- wear
- wear away
- weather
* * *♦ vt1. [suela, neumático] to wear down;[puño, cuerda] to fray; [roca] to wear away;han desgastado la tapicería del sofá con sus juegos they've caused a lot of wear on the upholstery of the sofa with their playing on it2. [persona] to wear out;[organización] to weaken* * *v/t1 zapatos wear out2 defensas wear down* * *desgastar vt1) : to use up2) : to wear away, to wear down* * *
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