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  • 1 WASTE: LAYING WASTE

    [A]
    VASTIFICUS (-A -UM)
    [N]
    VASTATIO (-ONIS) (F)
    VASTITAS (-ATIS) (F)
    DEPOPULATIO (-ONIS) (F)

    English-Latin dictionary > WASTE: LAYING WASTE

  • 2 laying waste

    merusakkan

    English-Indonesian dictionary > laying waste

  • 3 laying waste

    tahrip etme

    English-Turkish dictionary > laying waste

  • 4 laying waste

    tahrip etme

    English-Turkish new dictionary > laying waste

  • 5 WASTE

    [A]
    VASTUS (-A -UM)
    DESERTUS (-A -UM)
    EREMUS (-A -UM)
    HEREMUS (-A -UM)
    [N]
    EROGATIO (-ONIS) (F)
    VASTATIO (-ONIS) (F)
    TERMENTUM (-I) (N)
    DETRIMENTUM (-I) (N)
    INTERTRIMENTUM (-I) (N)
    PERDITIO (-ONIS) (F)
    VASTITAS (-ATIS) (F)
    INCULTA (-ORUM) (PL)
    [V]
    PRODIGO (-ERE -EGI -ACTUM)
    ABSUMO (-ERE -SUMPSI -SUMPTUM)
    ABLIGURRIO (-IRE -IVI -ITUM)
    PROFUNDO (-ERE -FUDI -FUSUM)
    LANCINO (-ARE -AVI -ATUM)
    EDO (-ERE EDI ESUM)
    COMEDO (-ERE -EDI -ESUM)
    AMBEDO (-ERE -EDI -ESUM)
    PEREDO (-ERE -EDI -ESUM)
    DEVORO (-ARE -AVI -ATUM)
    JACTO (-ARE -AVI -ATUM)
    IACTO (-ARE -AVI -ATUM)
    DECOQUO (-ERE -COXI -COCTUM)
    CONTERO (-ERE -TRIVI -TRITUM)
    CONCOQUO (-ERE -COXI -COCTUM)
    TERO (-ERE TRIVI TRITUM)
    ELUO (-ERE -LUI -LUTUM)
    EXIMO (-ERE -EMI -EMPTUM)
    EFFUNDO (-ERE -FUDI -FUSUM)
    ECFUNDO (-ERE -FUDI -FUSUM)
    EXTRAHO (-ERE -TRAXI -TRACTUM)
    TOLLO (-ERE SUSTULI SUBLATUM)
    TRAHO (-ERE TRAXI TRACTUM)
    DEPOPULOR (-ARI -POPULATUS SUM)
    DEPOPULO (-ARE -AVI -ATUM)
    ATTERO (-ERE -TRIVI -TRITUM)
    LACERO (-ARE -AVI -ATUM)
    PERDO (-ERE -DIDI -DITUM)
    DEPASCO (-ERE -PAVI -PASTUM)
    INARESCO (-ERE -ARUI)
    DEFLUO (-ERE -FLUXI -FLUXUM)
    LIQUESCO (-ERE LICUI)
    DEPASCOR (-PASCI -PASTUS SUM)
    LIQUEFACIO (-ERE -FECI -FACTUM)
    LIQUOR (LIQUI)
    ABLIGURIO (-IRE -IVI -ITUS)
    ADTERO (-ERE -TRIVI -TRITUS)
    APSUMO (-ERE -SUMPSI -SUMPTUS)
    CONTRICO (-ARE -AVI -ATUS)
    - BE WASTED
    - LAYING WASTE
    - LAY WASTE
    - WASTES
    - WILD WASTE

    English-Latin dictionary > WASTE

  • 6 waste papers laying about

    разбросанные повсюду ненужные бумажки/бумаги

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > waste papers laying about

  • 7 lay waste

    to make (a piece of land) into barren country by burning and plundering.
    يُبَذِّر
    •
    Remark: lay needs an object and has laid as its past tense and past participle: He (had) laid his book down; He will be laying his proposals before the committee tomorrow. lie takes no object and has lying as its present participle, lay as its past tense and lain as its past participle: Please lie down; He lay down; He had lain there for hours. lie, to be untruthful, has lying as its present participle, and lied as its past tense and past participle: She (has always) lied about her age.

    Arabic-English dictionary > lay waste

  • 8 asolar

    v.
    1 to devastate.
    2 to desolate, to destroy, to devastate, to lay flat.
    Los vientos desolaron el bosque The winds desolated the forest.
    3 to raze, to level with ground, to strip.
    Los tractores asolaron la tierra The tractors razed the land.
    4 to vanquish.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ CONTAR], like link=contar contar
    1 (epidemia) to ravage; (ejército) to lay waste to, raze; (incendio, tempestad) to devastate
    * * *
    verb
    to raze, destroy
    * * *
    I II
    1.
    VT to raze, raze to the ground, destroy
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo transitivo guerra/huracán/sequía to devastate
    * * *
    = plague, devastate, lay + waste to, desolate.
    Ex. Title indexes have always been plagued by the absence of terminology control.
    Ex. The article 'Sorting a mountain of books' relates how when the law library was devastated by fire what had been a library became a jumble of 100,000 books and periodicals.
    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. You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs; you cannot destroy the practices of barbarism which for centuries have desolated Africa without the use of force.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo guerra/huracán/sequía to devastate
    * * *
    = plague, devastate, lay + waste to, desolate.

    Ex: Title indexes have always been plagued by the absence of terminology control.

    Ex: The article 'Sorting a mountain of books' relates how when the law library was devastated by fire what had been a library became a jumble of 100,000 books and periodicals.
    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: You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs; you cannot destroy the practices of barbarism which for centuries have desolated Africa without the use of force.

    * * *
    asolar [A1 ] or [ A10 ]
    vt
    «guerra/huracán/sequía» to devastate
    el terremoto asoló la ciudad the earthquake devastated the town
    un país asolado por el hambre a country ravaged o devastated by hunger
    * * *

    asolar ( conjugate asolar) verbo transitivo [guerra/huracán/sequía] to devastate
    asolar verbo transitivo to devastate, destroy
    ' asolar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    devastate
    - plague
    - blight
    * * *
    asolar vt
    to devastate
    * * *
    v/t devastate
    * * *
    asolar {19} vt
    : to devastate, to destroy

    Spanish-English dictionary > asolar

  • 9 devastar

    v.
    to devastate.
    El fuego barrió con todo el pueblo The fire devastated the village.
    * * *
    1 to devastate, ravage, lay waste
    * * *
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to devastate
    * * *
    = devastate, wreak + devastation, rack [wrack], wreak + destruction, lay + waste to, shatter, desolate.
    Ex. The article 'Sorting a mountain of books' relates how when the law library was devastated by fire what had been a library became a jumble of 100,000 books and periodicals.
    Ex. This article describes the experiences of a fledgling information system in dealing with a hurricane which wreaked devastation on some of the most remote areas of Hawaii = Este artículo describe las experiencias de un sistema de información nuevo al verse afectado por un huracán que devastó algunas de las zonas más remotas de Hawaii.
    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. 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. Her feeling of well-being was soon rudely shattered.
    Ex. You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs; you cannot destroy the practices of barbarism which for centuries have desolated Africa without the use of force.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to devastate
    * * *
    = devastate, wreak + devastation, rack [wrack], wreak + destruction, lay + waste to, shatter, desolate.

    Ex: The article 'Sorting a mountain of books' relates how when the law library was devastated by fire what had been a library became a jumble of 100,000 books and periodicals.

    Ex: This article describes the experiences of a fledgling information system in dealing with a hurricane which wreaked devastation on some of the most remote areas of Hawaii = Este artículo describe las experiencias de un sistema de información nuevo al verse afectado por un huracán que devastó algunas de las zonas más remotas de Hawaii.
    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: 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: Her feeling of well-being was soon rudely shattered.
    Ex: You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs; you cannot destroy the practices of barbarism which for centuries have desolated Africa without the use of force.

    * * *
    devastar [A1 ]
    vt
    to devastate
    * * *

    devastar ( conjugate devastar) verbo transitivo
    to devastate
    devastar verbo transitivo to devastate
    ' devastar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    devastate
    - ravage
    * * *
    to devastate
    * * *
    v/t devastate
    * * *
    : to devastate

    Spanish-English dictionary > devastar

  • 10 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.
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    * 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

  • 11 hacer estragos

    v.
    to cause great damage, to create chaos, to cause destruction, to cause ruin.
    * * *
    (v.) = lay + waste to, create + havoc, wreak + havoc, cause + havoc, take + Posesivo + toll (on)
    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. Power-hungry politicians are creating havoc everywhere.
    Ex. I would, nonetheless, like to consider a common type of a change, which normally presents no problem under a manual system, but which could wreak havoc in an automated system.
    Ex. It was found that someone had dumped a load of builders' rubble down a manhole blocking the sewer and causing havoc.
    Ex. The pressures which modern society puts on all its members are great and those pressures take their toll.
    * * *
    (v.) = lay + waste to, create + havoc, wreak + havoc, cause + havoc, take + Posesivo + toll (on)

    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: Power-hungry politicians are creating havoc everywhere.
    Ex: I would, nonetheless, like to consider a common type of a change, which normally presents no problem under a manual system, but which could wreak havoc in an automated system.
    Ex: It was found that someone had dumped a load of builders' rubble down a manhole blocking the sewer and causing havoc.
    Ex: The pressures which modern society puts on all its members are great and those pressures take their toll.

    Spanish-English dictionary > hacer estragos

  • 12 arrasar

    v.
    1 to destroy, to devastate.
    2 to ravage, to destroy, to wipe out, to demolish.
    Los soldados arrasaron el pueblo The soldiers ravaged the town.
    3 to raze, to level with ground, to devastate, to lay flat.
    Los tractores arrasaron la tierra The tractors razed the land.
    * * *
    1 (destruir) to raze, destroy
    2 (allanar) to level, smooth
    1 (disco, libro, película) to be a smash hit, sweep the board; (deportista) to sweep to victory
    \
    arrasar con (gen) to sweep away 2 (comer) to polish off 3 (destrozar) to destroy 4 (robar) to get away with, make off with
    * * *
    verb
    2) raze
    3) sweep the board, be a runaway success
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=nivelar) to level; [+ edificio] to demolish; [esp en guerra] to raze to the ground; [ciclón, terremoto] to devastate
    2) (=colmar) to fill to the brim
    2. VI
    1) (Meteo) to clear
    2) (=triunfar) to triumph, achieve a great success; (Pol etc) to sweep the board
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo

    arrasar con algo: la inundación arrasó con las cosechas the flood devastated the crops; las tropas arrasaron con la zona the soldiers laid waste to the area; arrasaron con toda la comida — they polished off all the food (colloq)

    2.
    arrasar vt < zona> to devastate; < edificio> to destroy
    3.
    arrasarse v pron

    los ojos se le arrasaron en or de lágrimas — tears welled up in her eyes

    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo

    arrasar con algo: la inundación arrasó con las cosechas the flood devastated the crops; las tropas arrasaron con la zona the soldiers laid waste to the area; arrasaron con toda la comida — they polished off all the food (colloq)

    2.
    arrasar vt < zona> to devastate; < edificio> to destroy
    3.
    arrasarse v pron

    los ojos se le arrasaron en or de lágrimas — tears welled up in her eyes

    * * *
    arrasar1
    1 = lay + waste to, flatten, sweep away, rip through, raze, annihilate, devastate.

    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: This article describes how the organisation has been flattened into one unit during the changeover from a manual system to an automated statewide library system.
    Ex: Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex: Storms in this part of the world are common and the people didn't seem to bat an eyelid at the prospect of a 135km wind ripping through their town.
    Ex: The motel, which was built in 1953, will be razed to make way for a parking lot.
    Ex: He intends to annihilate all the major world powers, until Islamic nations dominate the planet.
    Ex: The article 'Sorting a mountain of books' relates how when the law library was devastated by fire what had been a library became a jumble of 100,000 books and periodicals.
    * arrasar completamente = raze + Nombre + to the ground.
    * epidemia + arrasar = epidemic + rage.
    * fuego + arrasar = fire + sweep through.

    arrasar2
    2 = take + no prisoners, take + Nombre + by storm, win by + a landslide.

    Ex: He broke all the rules on and off the stage and took no prisoners in his wild pursuit of pleasure, pain, tragedy, and hope.

    Ex: He was a confident, unspoiled, talented, hard-working young man when he moved to a strange town as a youngster and took it by storm.
    Ex: The polls mean nothing at this point -- if he wins by a landslide fantastic but we are in June not October, long way between there and now.
    * arrasar con = eat + Posesivo + way through.

    * * *
    arrasar [A1 ]
    vi
    Boca Júniors volvió a arrasar Boca Juniors swept to victory again
    la película continúa arrasando the movie continues to be a huge box-office hit
    arrasar CON algo:
    la inundación arrasó con las cosechas the flood devastated o destroyed the crops o swept the crops away
    las tropas arrasaron con todo lo que encontraron a su paso the soldiers laid waste to everything that lay in their path
    arrasaron con toda la comida they polished off all the food ( colloq)
    los ladrones arrasaron con todas las joyas the thieves made off with all the jewelry
    los cubanos arrasaron con las medallas the Cubans walked off with o carried off all the medals
    los populares arrasaron en las urnas the populares won the elections by a landslide
    ■ arrasar
    vt
    ‹zona› to devastate; ‹edificio› to destroy, raze … to the ground
    el granizo arrasó los viñedos the hail destroyed o devastated the vineyards
    el sistema que fue arrasado por la revolución the system that was swept away by the revolution
    sintió que los ojos se le arrasaban en or de lágrimas she felt tears welling up in her eyes
    con los ojos arrasados en or de lágrimas with his eyes full of o brimming with tears
    * * *

    arrasar ( conjugate arrasar) verbo intransitivo arrasar con algn ‹ con contrincante› to demolish sb. ;
    ‹ con enemigo› to destroy sb.;

    arrasar con algo: la inundación arrasó con las cosechas the flood devastated the crops;
    arrasaron con toda la comida they polished off all the food (colloq)
    verbo transitivo ‹ zona› to devastate;

    ‹ edificio› to destroy
    arrasar
    I verbo transitivo to devastate, destroy: el fuego arrasó toda la zona, the fire devastated the entire area
    II vi (en una votación) to win by a landslide
    ' arrasar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    barrer
    English:
    bulldoze
    - raze
    - flatten
    - level
    - obliterate
    - waste
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    [destruir] [edificio, cosecha] to destroy; [zona] to devastate;
    el fuego arrasó el castillo the fire destroyed the castle, the castle was burned to the ground in the fire
    ♦ vi
    1.
    arrasar con [destruir] to destroy;
    el huracán arrasó con toda la cosecha the hurricane destroyed the entire harvest;
    los niños arrasaron con todos los pasteles the children made short work of the cakes
    2. Fam [triunfar] to win overwhelmingly;
    el equipo brasileño arrasó en la primera fase the Brazilian team swept everything before it in the first stage;
    la película arrasó en toda Europa the movie was a massive success throughout Europe
    * * *
    I v/t devastate
    II v/i fam
    be a big hit
    * * *
    1) : to level, to smooth
    2) : to devastate, to destroy
    3) : to fill to the brim

    Spanish-English dictionary > arrasar

  • 13 virulencia

    f.
    virulence (also figurative).
    * * *
    1 virulence
    * * *
    * * *
    femenino virulence
    * * *
    = virulence, vitriol.
    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. In addition to its weirdness, vitriol, and zaniness, the volume is characterized by solid good sense with an undertone of genuinely elegiac tenderness.
    ----
    * con más virulencia aun = with a vengeance.
    * con virulencia = virulently.
    * * *
    femenino virulence
    * * *
    = virulence, vitriol.

    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: In addition to its weirdness, vitriol, and zaniness, the volume is characterized by solid good sense with an undertone of genuinely elegiac tenderness.
    * con más virulencia aun = with a vengeance.
    * con virulencia = virulently.

    * * *
    1 ( Med) virulence
    2 (violencia) virulence, violence
    * * *

    virulencia sustantivo femenino virulence
    * * *
    1. [de epidemia, crítica, conflicto] virulence, ferocity
    2. [de virus, microorganismo] virulence
    * * *
    f MED, fig
    virulence
    * * *
    : virulence

    Spanish-English dictionary > virulencia

  • 14 δενδροτομίας

    δενδροτομίᾱς, δενδροτομία
    laying waste: fem acc pl
    δενδροτομίᾱς, δενδροτομία
    laying waste: fem gen sg (attic doric aeolic)

    Morphologia Graeca > δενδροτομίας

  • 15 dēpopulātiō

        dēpopulātiō ōnis, f    [depopulor], a laying waste, marauding, pillaging: agrorum: aedium: ad depopulationem profecti, L.: iter Antoniorum quid habuit nisi depopulationes?
    * * *
    plundering/pillaging/sacking/marauding/ravaging/laying waste

    Latin-English dictionary > dēpopulātiō

  • 16 populābundus

        populābundus adj.    [populor], laying waste, ravaging: in finīs Romanos excucurrerunt populabundi, L.: per agrum ierat, L.
    * * *
    populabunda, populabundum ADJ
    laying waste, devastating

    Latin-English dictionary > populābundus

  • 17 populātiō

        populātiō ōnis, f    [populor], a laying waste, ravaging, plundering, spoiling, devastation: populationem effuse facere, L.: hostem populationibus prohibere, Cs.— Plunder, booty: Veientes pleni populationum, L.
    * * *
    plundering, ravaging, spoiling; laying waste, devastation; plunder, booty

    Latin-English dictionary > populātiō

  • 18 vāstātiō

        vāstātiō ōnis, f    [vasto], a laying waste, desolating, ravaging, devastation: omnium: agri, L.: depopulationes, vastationes.
    * * *
    laying waste, ravaging

    Latin-English dictionary > vāstātiō

  • 19 arrasar1

    1 = lay + waste to, flatten, sweep away, rip through, raze, annihilate, devastate.
    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. This article describes how the organisation has been flattened into one unit during the changeover from a manual system to an automated statewide library system.
    Ex. Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex. Storms in this part of the world are common and the people didn't seem to bat an eyelid at the prospect of a 135km wind ripping through their town.
    Ex. The motel, which was built in 1953, will be razed to make way for a parking lot.
    Ex. He intends to annihilate all the major world powers, until Islamic nations dominate the planet.
    Ex. The article 'Sorting a mountain of books' relates how when the law library was devastated by fire what had been a library became a jumble of 100,000 books and periodicals.
    ----
    * arrasar completamente = raze + Nombre + to the ground.
    * epidemia + arrasar = epidemic + rage.
    * fuego + arrasar = fire + sweep through.

    Spanish-English dictionary > arrasar1

  • 20 rapto

    rapto, āvi, ātum ( inf. pass. paragog. raptarier, Enn. Trag. 192), 1, v. freq. a. [id.], to seize and carry off, to snatch, drag, or hurry away (mostly poet.).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.: vidi Hectorem curru quadrijugo raptarier, dragged along, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 105 (Trag. v. 129 Vahl.): imitated by Verg.: Hector raptatus bigis, A. 2, 272; and:

    Hectoracirca muros,

    id. ib. 1, 483; cf.:

    viscera viri Per silvas,

    id. ib. 8, 644:

    Phaëthonta rapax vis solis equorum Aethere raptavit toto terrasque per omnes,

    Lucr. 5, 398; cf.

    of the same: arbitrio volucrum raptatur equorum,

    Ov. M. 2, 234; Lucr. 1, 279:

    raptatur comis per vim,

    Ov. M. 12, 223; cf.:

    signa, quae turbine atque unda raptabantur,

    Tac. A. 1, 30: pars de divulso raptabant membra juvenco, * Cat. 64, 258:

    quid me raptas?

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 4, 5; cf.:

    dissipati liberi, raptata conjux (sc. ad tabulam Valeriam),

    Cic. Sest. 69, 145 (cf. id. Fam. 14, 2, 2):

    in fluctu carinas,

    Sil. 1, 409.—
    B.
    Esp., to lead quickly, hurry, hasten:

    nos ad ostia Ponti Raptat iter,

    Val. Fl. 2, 576:

    Hiberos,

    Sil. 16, 31:

    in agmina turmas,

    id. 8, 406; 3, 404:

    vexilla huc vel illuc,

    Tac. H. 3, 22; cf.: legiones huc atque illuc, Auct. B. Afr. 73, 4. — Poet., with inf.:

    raptantur amantes jungere Nymphas,

    Nemes. Ecl. 3, 56.—
    C.
    In partic., to waste, ravage, plunder:

    igitur raptare inter se, immittere latronum globos, etc.,

    Tac. A. 12, 54:

    arces,

    Stat. Th. 6, 115: adhuc raptabat Africam Tacfarinas, i. e. devastabat, was laying waste, ravaging, Tac. A. 4, 23. —
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to drag along:

    nam quid ego heroas, quid raptem in crimina divos?

    to accuse, arraign, Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 27:

    patres raptabat ad aras cura deūm,

    Sil. 7, 74 (cf. rapio, I. A.).—
    B.
    In partic., to hurry along with passion, to agitate, disquiet:

    ita me amor lassum animi ludificat, fugat, agit, appetit, Raptat, etc.,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 9:

    sacer effera raptat Corda pavor,

    Val. Fl. 1, 799:

    amor raptabat,

    Sil. 13, 720.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > rapto

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