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  • 1 acometer

    v.
    1 to attack.
    le acometió el sueño he was overcome by tiredness
    El maleante acometió a Silvia ayer The mugger attacked Silvia yesterday.
    2 to undertake.
    Mario acomete una empresa Mario undertakes a venture.
    3 to undertake to, to begin to.
    Alicia acometió poner la obra en escena Alice undertook to stage the play.
    4 to rush against, to dash against.
    Los soldados acometieron el fuerte The soldiers rushed against the fort.
    5 to be suddenly assailed by, to feel, to be suddenly overcome by.
    Le acometió un mal presentimiento He was suddenly assailed by a bad...
    * * *
    1 (embestir) to attack
    2 (emprender) to undertake
    3 (empezar repentinamente) to be seized by
    * * *
    verb
    1) to undertake, tackle
    * * *
    VT
    1) (=atacar) to attack, set upon; [toro] to charge
    2) [+ tarea] to undertake, attempt; [+ asunto] to tackle, deal with; [+ construcción] to begin, start on
    3) [sueño] to overcome; [miedo] to seize, take hold of; [dudas] to assail; [enfermedad] to attack

    le acometieron dudas — he was assailed by doubts, he began to have doubts

    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) ( atacar) to attack
    2) <empresa/proyecto> to undertake, tackle; < reforma> to undertake
    3) ( asaltar) temor/deseo to take hold of
    2.
    acometer vi to attack

    acometer contra algo/alguien — to attack something/somebody

    * * *
    = attack, come to + grips with, embark on/upon, go about, assail, get to + grips with, set out on, get + a grip on.
    Ex. Some of the deficiencies in our catalogs are the result of very practical factors in personnel resources; some are probably a fault in the way that we attack subject headings and put them in the catalog.
    Ex. Right now the management team is beginning to come to grips with our annual budget process, as it does every year.
    Ex. Before we embark upon more extensive consideration of the software packages and their use in information retrieval, it is worth reviewing the options for computer hardware.
    Ex. I think he outlined the feasible way to go about meeting our needs without doing in anybody else in the process.
    Ex. It's ridiculous to assail people who are making a code for abandoning all the principles which have been going strong for 100 years.
    Ex. The Treasure has made good use of a number of methodologies in getting to grips with the principles and applications of information management.
    Ex. However rudimentary or advanced the system, and no matter what the age of the children involved, certain matters should be considered before setting out on the venture.
    Ex. The article ' Getting a grip on change' argues that only by confronting the challenges and inevitability of change can libraries retain their relevancy in the information age.
    ----
    * acometer un problema = attack + problem.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) ( atacar) to attack
    2) <empresa/proyecto> to undertake, tackle; < reforma> to undertake
    3) ( asaltar) temor/deseo to take hold of
    2.
    acometer vi to attack

    acometer contra algo/alguien — to attack something/somebody

    * * *
    = attack, come to + grips with, embark on/upon, go about, assail, get to + grips with, set out on, get + a grip on.

    Ex: Some of the deficiencies in our catalogs are the result of very practical factors in personnel resources; some are probably a fault in the way that we attack subject headings and put them in the catalog.

    Ex: Right now the management team is beginning to come to grips with our annual budget process, as it does every year.
    Ex: Before we embark upon more extensive consideration of the software packages and their use in information retrieval, it is worth reviewing the options for computer hardware.
    Ex: I think he outlined the feasible way to go about meeting our needs without doing in anybody else in the process.
    Ex: It's ridiculous to assail people who are making a code for abandoning all the principles which have been going strong for 100 years.
    Ex: The Treasure has made good use of a number of methodologies in getting to grips with the principles and applications of information management.
    Ex: However rudimentary or advanced the system, and no matter what the age of the children involved, certain matters should be considered before setting out on the venture.
    Ex: The article ' Getting a grip on change' argues that only by confronting the challenges and inevitability of change can libraries retain their relevancy in the information age.
    * acometer un problema = attack + problem.

    * * *
    acometer [E1 ]
    vt
    A (atacar) to attack
    B ‹empresa/proyecto› to undertake, tackle; ‹reforma› to undertake
    C (asaltar) «temor/deseo» to seize, take hold of
    me acometió el sueño sleep came over me
    de repente me acometió la duda I was suddenly assailed by doubt
    ■ acometer
    vi
    to attack acometer CONTRA algo/algn to attack sth/sb
    * * *

    acometer ( conjugate acometer) verbo intransitivo
    to attack;
    acometer contra algo/algn to attack sth/sb
    acometer verbo transitivo
    1 (una tarea) to undertake
    2 (agredir) to attack
    3 (sobrevenir, asaltar) to be struck by: me acometían serias dudas sobre su honestidad, I was struck by doubts about his honesty
    ' acometer' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    arremeter
    English:
    attack
    - go
    - set
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [atacar] to attack
    2. [emprender] to undertake;
    acometió la tarea con ilusión she took on the task with enthusiasm
    3. [sobrevenir]
    me acometió un dolor punzante I was hit by a stabbing pain;
    me acometió el sueño I was overcome by sleepiness
    ♦ vi
    [embestir] to attack;
    acometer contra to attack, to charge at
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 attack
    2 tarea, proyecto undertake, tackle
    II v/i attack;
    * * *
    1) atacar: to attack, to assail
    2) emprender: to undertake, to begin
    acometer contra : to rush against
    * * *
    acometer vb to attack

    Spanish-English dictionary > acometer

  • 2 gruñón

    adj.
    grumpy, cranky, grouchy, gruff.
    m.
    grouch, grumbler, grump, snarler.
    * * *
    1 grumbling, grumpy
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 grumbler, grouch
    * * *
    gruñón, -ona
    1.
    ADJ grumpy, grumbling
    2.
    SM / F grumbler
    * * *
    I
    - ñona adjetivo (fam) grumpy (colloq)
    II
    - ñona masculino, femenino (fam) grump (colloq), grouse (colloq)
    * * *
    = grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], ornery, misery guts, grouch, sour puss, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].
    Ex. That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex. For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex. The most common problem suffered by curmudgeons turns out to be their circumscribed social life.
    Ex. Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex. To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex. He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex. For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex. At the other end of the scale are misery guts, who are neither happy with their job role nor their employer.
    Ex. We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a ' grouch'.
    Ex. It is no fun being around you when you are being such a sour puss.
    Ex. We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
    ----
    * vieja gruñona = grumpy old woman.
    * viejo gruñón = grumpy old man, grumpy old sod.
    * * *
    I
    - ñona adjetivo (fam) grumpy (colloq)
    II
    - ñona masculino, femenino (fam) grump (colloq), grouse (colloq)
    * * *
    = grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], ornery, misery guts, grouch, sour puss, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].

    Ex: That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.

    Ex: For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex: The most common problem suffered by curmudgeons turns out to be their circumscribed social life.
    Ex: Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex: To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex: He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex: For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex: At the other end of the scale are misery guts, who are neither happy with their job role nor their employer.
    Ex: We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a ' grouch'.
    Ex: It is no fun being around you when you are being such a sour puss.
    Ex: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
    * vieja gruñona = grumpy old woman.
    * viejo gruñón = grumpy old man, grumpy old sod.

    * * *
    ( fam); grumpy ( colloq)
    masculine, feminine
    ( fam); grump ( colloq), grouch ( colloq), misery ( BrE colloq), moaner ( BrE colloq)
    * * *

    gruñón
    ◊ - ñona adjetivo (fam) grumpy (colloq)

    gruñón,-ona adjetivo grumpy

    ' gruñón' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    gruñona
    English:
    grouch
    - grouchy
    - grump
    - grumpy
    - nag
    - nagging
    * * *
    gruñón, -ona Fam
    ♦ adj
    grumpy
    ♦ nm,f
    old grump
    * * *
    I adj fam
    grumpy
    II m, gruñona f fam
    grouch fam
    * * *
    gruñón, - ñona adj, mpl gruñones fam : grumpy, crabby
    gruñón, - ñona n, mpl gruñones fam : grumpy person, nag
    * * *
    gruñón1 adj grumpy [comp. grumpier; superl. grumpiest]
    gruñón2 n moaner

    Spanish-English dictionary > gruñón

  • 3 irascible

    adj.
    1 irascible.
    2 angry, crabby, gnarled, morose.
    * * *
    1 irascible, irritable
    * * *
    ADJ irascible frm
    * * *
    adjetivo irascible
    * * *
    = tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], peevish, irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand], ornery, waspish, explosive, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].
    Ex. CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).
    Ex. In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex. A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex. The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    Ex. My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex. But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
    Ex. The explosive Cameron Shepherd then brought the Wallabies to within a point of France with the team's second try five minutes later.
    Ex. We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
    * * *
    adjetivo irascible
    * * *
    = tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], peevish, irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand], ornery, waspish, explosive, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].

    Ex: CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).

    Ex: In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex: A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex: The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    Ex: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex: But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
    Ex: The explosive Cameron Shepherd then brought the Wallabies to within a point of France with the team's second try five minutes later.
    Ex: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.

    * * *
    irascible
    * * *

    irascible adjetivo irascible, irritable, short-tempered
    ' irascible' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    temperamental
    English:
    cantankerous
    - hot-headed
    - irascible
    - quicktempered
    - crusty
    - hot
    - quick
    - snappy
    * * *
    irascible
    * * *
    adj irascible
    * * *
    : irascible, irritable

    Spanish-English dictionary > irascible

  • 4 irritable

    adj.
    irritable.
    Ser colérico Be quick-tempered (different from Be angry=Estar colérico.)
    * * *
    1 irritable
    * * *
    * * *
    adjetivo irritable
    * * *
    = tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], irritable, cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], waspish, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].
    Ex. CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).
    Ex. Many librarians worry that the public, collective image of librarians is associated with the crone -- an older, single woman who is irritable and protective of her domain.
    Ex. For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
    Ex. We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
    * * *
    adjetivo irritable
    * * *
    = tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], irritable, cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], waspish, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].

    Ex: CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).

    Ex: Many librarians worry that the public, collective image of librarians is associated with the crone -- an older, single woman who is irritable and protective of her domain.
    Ex: For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.
    Ex: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.

    * * *
    irritable
    * * *

    irritable adjetivo
    irritable
    ' irritable' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    irascible
    - enojadizo
    - enojón
    English:
    cantankerous
    - impatient
    - irritable
    - prickly
    - snappy
    - inclined
    - moody
    * * *
    irritable
    * * *
    adj irritable
    * * *
    : irritable

    Spanish-English dictionary > irritable

  • 5 irritado

    adj.
    1 irritated, angry, furious, annoyed.
    2 irritated, itchy, inflamed, sore.
    3 feverish.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: irritar.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=enfadado) irritated
    2) [piel] irritated
    * * *
    = sore, irritated, exasperated, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].
    Ex. The article 'A site for sore eyes' explains elements in a Web site that will ensure that users will want to use it: aesthetics, navigation, graphics tools, etc..
    Ex. Stanley C Holliday hammers home the same message by more whimsical means hinting darkly that a sticky end at the hands of irritated colleagues awaits all librarians who fail to make adequate and accurate notes.
    Ex. He was drumming on his desk with exasperated fingers, his mouth quirked at the corners, as if saying: 'Wriggle out of that!'.
    Ex. We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
    ----
    * ojos irritados = bloodshot eyes.
    * * *
    = sore, irritated, exasperated, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].

    Ex: The article 'A site for sore eyes' explains elements in a Web site that will ensure that users will want to use it: aesthetics, navigation, graphics tools, etc..

    Ex: Stanley C Holliday hammers home the same message by more whimsical means hinting darkly that a sticky end at the hands of irritated colleagues awaits all librarians who fail to make adequate and accurate notes.
    Ex: He was drumming on his desk with exasperated fingers, his mouth quirked at the corners, as if saying: 'Wriggle out of that!'.
    Ex: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
    * ojos irritados = bloodshot eyes.

    * * *
    irritado, -a adj
    1. [persona] irritated, annoyed
    2. [garganta] sore;
    tengo la piel irritada I've got a rash

    Spanish-English dictionary > irritado

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