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  • 1 Khmer Rouge

    = Khmer Rouge, the.
    Ex. By way of background, Mr. Pateman also denies that the Khmer Rouge committed mass killings in Cambodia.
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    = Khmer Rouge, the.

    Ex: By way of background, Mr. Pateman also denies that the Khmer Rouge committed mass killings in Cambodia.

    Spanish-English dictionary > Khmer Rouge

  • 2 Ruanda

    f.
    Rwanda.
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    1 Rwanda
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    = Rwanda.
    Ex. The author explains the devastation that affected libraries and archives during the war, genocide and political killings that befell Rwanda 1990-94.
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    Ex: The author explains the devastation that affected libraries and archives during the war, genocide and political killings that befell Rwanda 1990-94.

    * * *
    Rwanda
    * * *
    Rwanda

    Spanish-English dictionary > Ruanda

  • 3 asesinato político

    Ex. The author explains the devastation that affected libraries and archives during the war, genocide and political killings that befell Rwanda 1990-94.
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    Ex: The author explains the devastation that affected libraries and archives during the war, genocide and political killings that befell Rwanda 1990-94.

    Spanish-English dictionary > asesinato político

  • 4 atribuirse la autoría

    (v.) = make + claim of responsibility, claim + responsibility
    Ex. One analyst said the killings bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda but no claim of responsibility has been made.
    Ex. Al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for two truck bombs that hit government ministries in Baghdad last week.
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    (v.) = make + claim of responsibility, claim + responsibility

    Ex: One analyst said the killings bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda but no claim of responsibility has been made.

    Ex: Al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for two truck bombs that hit government ministries in Baghdad last week.

    Spanish-English dictionary > atribuirse la autoría

  • 5 atribuirse la responsabilidad

    (v.) = make + claim of responsibility, claim + responsibility
    Ex. One analyst said the killings bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda but no claim of responsibility has been made.
    Ex. Al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for two truck bombs that hit government ministries in Baghdad last week.
    * * *
    (v.) = make + claim of responsibility, claim + responsibility

    Ex: One analyst said the killings bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda but no claim of responsibility has been made.

    Ex: Al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for two truck bombs that hit government ministries in Baghdad last week.

    Spanish-English dictionary > atribuirse la responsabilidad

  • 6 con los nervios a flor de piel

    (adj.) = edgy [edgier -comp., edgiest -sup.], nervy [nervier -comp., nerviest -sup.], on edge, highly-strung
    Ex. His selection of films suggests a temperamental bias toward strong, violent, edgy scenes with killings, face-slappings, and confrontations.
    Ex. The article ' Nervy Days for Office Suppliers' reviews the present state of affairs of office automation.
    Ex. The combination of trade deficit, budget deficit, and threat of war has international investors completely on edge.
    Ex. He had expected more from his highly-strung dramatic finessing but the author rarely focused on personal influences or special affinities.
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    (adj.) = edgy [edgier -comp., edgiest -sup.], nervy [nervier -comp., nerviest -sup.], on edge, highly-strung

    Ex: His selection of films suggests a temperamental bias toward strong, violent, edgy scenes with killings, face-slappings, and confrontations.

    Ex: The article ' Nervy Days for Office Suppliers' reviews the present state of affairs of office automation.
    Ex: The combination of trade deficit, budget deficit, and threat of war has international investors completely on edge.
    Ex: He had expected more from his highly-strung dramatic finessing but the author rarely focused on personal influences or special affinities.

    Spanish-English dictionary > con los nervios a flor de piel

  • 7 con los nervios de punta

    = edgy [edgier -comp., edgiest -sup.], nervy [nervier -comp., nerviest -sup.], on edge
    Ex. His selection of films suggests a temperamental bias toward strong, violent, edgy scenes with killings, face-slappings, and confrontations.
    Ex. The article ' Nervy Days for Office Suppliers' reviews the present state of affairs of office automation.
    Ex. The combination of trade deficit, budget deficit, and threat of war has international investors completely on edge.
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    = edgy [edgier -comp., edgiest -sup.], nervy [nervier -comp., nerviest -sup.], on edge

    Ex: His selection of films suggests a temperamental bias toward strong, violent, edgy scenes with killings, face-slappings, and confrontations.

    Ex: The article ' Nervy Days for Office Suppliers' reviews the present state of affairs of office automation.
    Ex: The combination of trade deficit, budget deficit, and threat of war has international investors completely on edge.

    Spanish-English dictionary > con los nervios de punta

  • 8 excitado

    adj.
    excited, all excited, flushed, heated-up.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: excitar.
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    ADJ
    1) (=intranquilo) worked up, agitated
    2) (=entusiasmado) excited
    3) (=sexualmente) excited, aroused
    4) (Bio, Elec, Fís) excited
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    = edgy [edgier -comp., edgiest -sup.], nervy [nervier -comp., nerviest -sup.].
    Ex. His selection of films suggests a temperamental bias toward strong, violent, edgy scenes with killings, face-slappings, and confrontations.
    Ex. The article ' Nervy Days for Office Suppliers' reviews the present state of affairs of office automation.
    * * *
    = edgy [edgier -comp., edgiest -sup.], nervy [nervier -comp., nerviest -sup.].

    Ex: His selection of films suggests a temperamental bias toward strong, violent, edgy scenes with killings, face-slappings, and confrontations.

    Ex: The article ' Nervy Days for Office Suppliers' reviews the present state of affairs of office automation.

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    excitado, -a adj
    1. [nervioso] agitated;
    [por enfado, sexo] aroused
    2. Biol excited
    3. Elec excited
    * * *
    adj
    1 excited
    2 sexualmente aroused
    * * *
    excitado adj excited

    Spanish-English dictionary > excitado

  • 9 genocidio

    m.
    genocide.
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    1 genocide
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    masculino genocide
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    = genocide, mass murder, mass killing.
    Ex. Children in schools in California, USA, are not being told the truth about the gold rush, racism and the subsequent genocide of 95 per cent of the native Indian population of California.
    Ex. Some authors concluded that mass murder was analogous to 'femicide'.
    Ex. By way of background, Mr. Pateman also denies that the Khmer Rouge committed mass killings in Cambodia.
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    masculino genocide
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    = genocide, mass murder, mass killing.

    Ex: Children in schools in California, USA, are not being told the truth about the gold rush, racism and the subsequent genocide of 95 per cent of the native Indian population of California.

    Ex: Some authors concluded that mass murder was analogous to 'femicide'.
    Ex: By way of background, Mr. Pateman also denies that the Khmer Rouge committed mass killings in Cambodia.

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    genocide
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    genocidio sustantivo masculino
    genocide
    genocidio sustantivo masculino genocide
    ' genocidio' also found in these entries:
    English:
    genocide
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    genocide
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    m genocide
    * * *
    : genocide

    Spanish-English dictionary > genocidio

  • 10 histérico

    adj.
    1 hysterical, nervous wreck.
    2 hysteric.
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    1 hysterical
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 hysteric
    \
    poner histérico,-a a alguien familiar to drive somebody mad, wind somebody up
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    histérico, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) (Med) hysterical
    2) (=nervioso)

    ¡me pone histérico! — * it drives me mad!, it drives me up the wall *

    2. SM / F
    1) (Med) hysteric
    2) (=nervioso)

    no hagas caso, son unos histéricos — pay no attention, they're always having hysterics

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    I
    - ca adjetivo (Med, Psic) hysterical; ( exaltado)
    II
    - ca masculino, femenino (Med, Psic) hysteric; ( exaltado)
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    = edgy [edgier -comp., edgiest -sup.], demented, hysterical, hysteric.
    Ex. His selection of films suggests a temperamental bias toward strong, violent, edgy scenes with killings, face-slappings, and confrontations.
    Ex. Without the ability to select when faced with these choices we would be like demented dogs chasing every attractive smell that reaches our noses in complete confusion of purpose.
    Ex. It was in the course of treating hysterical patients in the 1980s that Freud began to form the major concepts of psychoanalytic theory.
    Ex. Freud's typical patient in the early years was frequently hysteric -- often female, bright, sexually repressed, bursting with vivid dreams and fantasies, prone to psychosomatic symptomatology.
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    * casi histérico = high-strung, highly-strung.
    * ponerse histérico = go + berserk, go + postal, work up + a lather, throw + a wobbly, throw + a wobbler.
    * * *
    I
    - ca adjetivo (Med, Psic) hysterical; ( exaltado)
    II
    - ca masculino, femenino (Med, Psic) hysteric; ( exaltado)
    * * *
    = edgy [edgier -comp., edgiest -sup.], demented, hysterical, hysteric.

    Ex: His selection of films suggests a temperamental bias toward strong, violent, edgy scenes with killings, face-slappings, and confrontations.

    Ex: Without the ability to select when faced with these choices we would be like demented dogs chasing every attractive smell that reaches our noses in complete confusion of purpose.
    Ex: It was in the course of treating hysterical patients in the 1980s that Freud began to form the major concepts of psychoanalytic theory.
    Ex: Freud's typical patient in the early years was frequently hysteric -- often female, bright, sexually repressed, bursting with vivid dreams and fantasies, prone to psychosomatic symptomatology.
    * casi histérico = high-strung, highly-strung.
    * ponerse histérico = go + berserk, go + postal, work up + a lather, throw + a wobbly, throw + a wobbler.

    * * *
    1 ( Med, Psic) hysterical
    2
    (exaltado): se puso histérico cuando vio la carta he went mad o had hysterics o had a fit when he saw the letter ( colloq)
    masculine, feminine
    1 ( Med, Psic) hysteric
    2
    (exaltado): es un histérico he gets completely o quite hysterical about things, he gets in a terrible flap about things
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    histérico
    ◊ -ca adjetivo (Med, Psic) hysterical;


    ( exaltado):
    ◊ ponerse histérico to have hysterics o a fit;

    me pones histérico you drive me mad
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino (Med, Psic) hysteric;

    ( exaltado):

    histérico,-a adjetivo hysterical
    familiar le estás poniendo histérico, you are driving him mad

    ' histérico' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    histérica
    English:
    hysterical
    - wobbly
    - hysterics
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    histérico, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. Psi hysterical
    2. Fam [nervioso]
    estar histérico to be a bag o bundle of nerves;
    ponerse histérico to get in a flap;
    ese ruido me pone histérico that noise really gets on my nerves
    ♦ nm,f
    1. Psi hysteric
    2. Fam [nervioso]
    es una histérica she's always getting in a flap
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    I adj hysterical
    II m, histérica f hysteric
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    histérico, -ca adj
    : hysterical
    * * *
    histérico adj hysterical

    Spanish-English dictionary > histérico

  • 11 llevar el sello de

    (v.) = bear + the imprint of, bear + the mark(s) of, bear + the stamp of, bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of
    Ex. All of us bear the imprint of the culture and the time we are born into as much as we do the imprint of our genes.
    Ex. His bespectacled face bears the marks of decades of administrative decisions and manipulating markets.
    Ex. In the UK, colleges of further education and their libraries are highly individual institutions bearing the stamp of the educational entrepreneur.
    Ex. One analyst said the killings bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda but no claim of responsibility has been made.
    Ex. Michael Jackson's corpse had the hallmarks of longtime intravenous drug use.
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    (v.) = bear + the imprint of, bear + the mark(s) of, bear + the stamp of, bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of

    Ex: All of us bear the imprint of the culture and the time we are born into as much as we do the imprint of our genes.

    Ex: His bespectacled face bears the marks of decades of administrative decisions and manipulating markets.
    Ex: In the UK, colleges of further education and their libraries are highly individual institutions bearing the stamp of the educational entrepreneur.
    Ex: One analyst said the killings bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda but no claim of responsibility has been made.
    Ex: Michael Jackson's corpse had the hallmarks of longtime intravenous drug use.

    Spanish-English dictionary > llevar el sello de

  • 12 llevar el sello distintivo de

    (v.) = bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of
    Ex. One analyst said the killings bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda but no claim of responsibility has been made.
    Ex. Michael Jackson's corpse had the hallmarks of longtime intravenous drug use.
    * * *
    (v.) = bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of

    Ex: One analyst said the killings bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda but no claim of responsibility has been made.

    Ex: Michael Jackson's corpse had the hallmarks of longtime intravenous drug use.

    Spanish-English dictionary > llevar el sello distintivo de

  • 13 llevar la impronta de

    (v.) = bear + the imprint of, bear + the mark(s) of, bear + the stamp of, bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of
    Ex. All of us bear the imprint of the culture and the time we are born into as much as we do the imprint of our genes.
    Ex. His bespectacled face bears the marks of decades of administrative decisions and manipulating markets.
    Ex. In the UK, colleges of further education and their libraries are highly individual institutions bearing the stamp of the educational entrepreneur.
    Ex. One analyst said the killings bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda but no claim of responsibility has been made.
    Ex. Michael Jackson's corpse had the hallmarks of longtime intravenous drug use.
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    (v.) = bear + the imprint of, bear + the mark(s) of, bear + the stamp of, bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of

    Ex: All of us bear the imprint of the culture and the time we are born into as much as we do the imprint of our genes.

    Ex: His bespectacled face bears the marks of decades of administrative decisions and manipulating markets.
    Ex: In the UK, colleges of further education and their libraries are highly individual institutions bearing the stamp of the educational entrepreneur.
    Ex: One analyst said the killings bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda but no claim of responsibility has been made.
    Ex: Michael Jackson's corpse had the hallmarks of longtime intravenous drug use.

    Spanish-English dictionary > llevar la impronta de

  • 14 llevar la marca de

    (v.) = bear + the mark(s) of, bear + the stamp of, bear + the imprint of, bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of
    Ex. His bespectacled face bears the marks of decades of administrative decisions and manipulating markets.
    Ex. In the UK, colleges of further education and their libraries are highly individual institutions bearing the stamp of the educational entrepreneur.
    Ex. All of us bear the imprint of the culture and the time we are born into as much as we do the imprint of our genes.
    Ex. One analyst said the killings bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda but no claim of responsibility has been made.
    Ex. Michael Jackson's corpse had the hallmarks of longtime intravenous drug use.
    * * *
    (v.) = bear + the mark(s) of, bear + the stamp of, bear + the imprint of, bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of

    Ex: His bespectacled face bears the marks of decades of administrative decisions and manipulating markets.

    Ex: In the UK, colleges of further education and their libraries are highly individual institutions bearing the stamp of the educational entrepreneur.
    Ex: All of us bear the imprint of the culture and the time we are born into as much as we do the imprint of our genes.
    Ex: One analyst said the killings bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda but no claim of responsibility has been made.
    Ex: Michael Jackson's corpse had the hallmarks of longtime intravenous drug use.

    Spanish-English dictionary > llevar la marca de

  • 15 llevar la marca distintiva de

    (v.) = bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of
    Ex. One analyst said the killings bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda but no claim of responsibility has been made.
    Ex. Michael Jackson's corpse had the hallmarks of longtime intravenous drug use.
    * * *
    (v.) = bear + the hallmarks of, have + the hallmarks of

    Ex: One analyst said the killings bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda but no claim of responsibility has been made.

    Ex: Michael Jackson's corpse had the hallmarks of longtime intravenous drug use.

    Spanish-English dictionary > llevar la marca distintiva de

  • 16 masacre

    f.
    massacre.
    pres.subj.
    1st person singular (yo) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: masacrar.
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    1 massacre
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    noun f.
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    femenino massacre
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    = massacre, masssacre, bloodshed, carnage, butchery, bloodbath [blood bath], mass killing, decimation.
    Ex. Encounters between indigenous and colonizing peoples are described as massacres when the indigenous people won and BATTLES when the colonists won.
    Ex. Encounters between indigenous and colonizing peoples are described as MASSACRES when the indigenous people won and BATTLES when the colonists won.
    Ex. The author deals with the vexed issue of copyright passing from the bloodshed provoked by St. Columba's unauthorized copying of a neighbour's book of Psalms in the Sixth century, through the invention of royalties for glassblowers during the Renaissance to Microsoft's problems with free software.
    Ex. This new horror genre uses humor in the midst of violent gore & carnage.
    Ex. They charge the West, which has chosen to look the other way, with complicity in the butchery.
    Ex. The story amounts to blind love equals bloodbath and media exploitation in rural America.
    Ex. By way of background, Mr. Pateman also denies that the Khmer Rouge committed mass killings in Cambodia.
    Ex. Over the past decades librarians have been variously outraged and resigned to budget cuts and spiralling prices, leading to the decimation of their holdings.
    * * *
    femenino massacre
    * * *
    = massacre, masssacre, bloodshed, carnage, butchery, bloodbath [blood bath], mass killing, decimation.

    Ex: Encounters between indigenous and colonizing peoples are described as massacres when the indigenous people won and BATTLES when the colonists won.

    Ex: Encounters between indigenous and colonizing peoples are described as MASSACRES when the indigenous people won and BATTLES when the colonists won.
    Ex: The author deals with the vexed issue of copyright passing from the bloodshed provoked by St. Columba's unauthorized copying of a neighbour's book of Psalms in the Sixth century, through the invention of royalties for glassblowers during the Renaissance to Microsoft's problems with free software.
    Ex: This new horror genre uses humor in the midst of violent gore & carnage.
    Ex: They charge the West, which has chosen to look the other way, with complicity in the butchery.
    Ex: The story amounts to blind love equals bloodbath and media exploitation in rural America.
    Ex: By way of background, Mr. Pateman also denies that the Khmer Rouge committed mass killings in Cambodia.
    Ex: Over the past decades librarians have been variously outraged and resigned to budget cuts and spiralling prices, leading to the decimation of their holdings.

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    massacre
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    Del verbo masacrar: ( conjugate masacrar)

    masacré es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

    masacre es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    masacrar    
    masacre
    masacrar ( conjugate masacrar) verbo transitivo
    to massacre
    masacre sustantivo femenino
    massacre
    masacrar verbo transitivo to massacre
    masacre sustantivo femenino massacre
    ' masacre' also found in these entries:
    English:
    massacre
    - slaughter
    - blood
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    massacre
    * * *
    f massacre
    * * *
    : massacre
    * * *
    masacre n slaughter

    Spanish-English dictionary > masacre

  • 17 matanza

    f.
    1 slaughter (masacre).
    2 slaughtering (del cerdo). (peninsular Spanish)
    3 killing, bloodbath, bloodshed, butchery.
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    1 (gen) slaughter
    2 (del cerdo) pig killing
    3 (carne) pork products plural
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    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) [en batalla] slaughter, killing; (Agr) slaughtering; (=temporada) slaughtering season; (fig) slaughter, massacre
    2) Caribe (=matadero) slaughterhouse; And (=tienda) butcher's, butcher's shop; CAm (=mercado) meat market
    * * *
    femenino ( acción de matar) killing, slaughter; (de res, cerdo) slaughter
    * * *
    = massacre, slaughter, slaughtering, killing, mass murder, bloodshed, carnage, butchery, mass killing, kill, slaying.
    Ex. Encounters between indigenous and colonizing peoples are described as massacres when the indigenous people won and BATTLES when the colonists won.
    Ex. Attention has focussed on the marketing of dangerous substances, safety standards for the slaughter of meat and poultry, and control of dangerous cosmetics.
    Ex. These programmes cover red meat slaughterhouses, ware potatoes, liquid milk processing, horticulture, cereals, fisheries, and pigmeat slaughtering and processing.
    Ex. This article reports on the coverage by the New York Times of the killing of a hostage victim during a highjack.
    Ex. Some authors concluded that mass murder was analogous to 'femicide'.
    Ex. The author deals with the vexed issue of copyright passing from the bloodshed provoked by St. Columba's unauthorized copying of a neighbour's book of Psalms in the Sixth century, through the invention of royalties for glassblowers during the Renaissance to Microsoft's problems with free software.
    Ex. This new horror genre uses humor in the midst of violent gore & carnage.
    Ex. They charge the West, which has chosen to look the other way, with complicity in the butchery.
    Ex. By way of background, Mr. Pateman also denies that the Khmer Rouge committed mass killings in Cambodia.
    Ex. Early rise as your try and catch the predators after their nightly kill.
    Ex. A mobster believed to be the head of an organized crime clan involved in the slaying of six people has been arrested this morning.
    ----
    * autor de una matanza = mass murderer.
    * matanza indiscriminada = killing spree, shooting spree, shooting rampage.
    * * *
    femenino ( acción de matar) killing, slaughter; (de res, cerdo) slaughter
    * * *
    = massacre, slaughter, slaughtering, killing, mass murder, bloodshed, carnage, butchery, mass killing, kill, slaying.

    Ex: Encounters between indigenous and colonizing peoples are described as massacres when the indigenous people won and BATTLES when the colonists won.

    Ex: Attention has focussed on the marketing of dangerous substances, safety standards for the slaughter of meat and poultry, and control of dangerous cosmetics.
    Ex: These programmes cover red meat slaughterhouses, ware potatoes, liquid milk processing, horticulture, cereals, fisheries, and pigmeat slaughtering and processing.
    Ex: This article reports on the coverage by the New York Times of the killing of a hostage victim during a highjack.
    Ex: Some authors concluded that mass murder was analogous to 'femicide'.
    Ex: The author deals with the vexed issue of copyright passing from the bloodshed provoked by St. Columba's unauthorized copying of a neighbour's book of Psalms in the Sixth century, through the invention of royalties for glassblowers during the Renaissance to Microsoft's problems with free software.
    Ex: This new horror genre uses humor in the midst of violent gore & carnage.
    Ex: They charge the West, which has chosen to look the other way, with complicity in the butchery.
    Ex: By way of background, Mr. Pateman also denies that the Khmer Rouge committed mass killings in Cambodia.
    Ex: Early rise as your try and catch the predators after their nightly kill.
    Ex: A mobster believed to be the head of an organized crime clan involved in the slaying of six people has been arrested this morning.
    * autor de una matanza = mass murderer.
    * matanza indiscriminada = killing spree, shooting spree, shooting rampage.

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    A (acción de matar) killing, slaughter; (de una res, un cerdo) slaughter
    la matanza se hace cada año en noviembre the animals are slaughtered in November each year
    la matanza de ciudadanos inocentes the slaughter o killing of innocent citizens
    B ( Esp) (embutidos) pork products (pl)
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    matanza sustantivo femenino ( acción de matar) killing, slaughter;
    (de res, cerdo) slaughter;

    matanza sustantivo femenino slaughter

    ' matanza' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    carnicería
    - salvaje
    English:
    carnage
    - massacre
    - orgy
    - slaughter
    - wholesale
    - killing
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    1. [masacre] slaughter
    2. [de cerdo] [acción] slaughtering
    3. Esp [de cerdo] [productos] = pork products from a farm-slaughtered pig
    * * *
    f de animales slaughter; de gente slaughter, massacre
    * * *
    masacre: slaughter, butchering
    * * *
    matanza n slaughter

    Spanish-English dictionary > matanza

  • 18 nerviso

    = edgy [edgier -comp., edgiest -sup.].
    Ex. His selection of films suggests a temperamental bias toward strong, violent, edgy scenes with killings, face-slappings, and confrontations.
    * * *
    = edgy [edgier -comp., edgiest -sup.].

    Ex: His selection of films suggests a temperamental bias toward strong, violent, edgy scenes with killings, face-slappings, and confrontations.

    Spanish-English dictionary > nerviso

  • 19 pelea a bofetadas

    Ex. His selection of films suggests a temperamental bias toward strong, violent, edgy scenes with killings, face-slappings, and confrontations.
    * * *

    Ex: His selection of films suggests a temperamental bias toward strong, violent, edgy scenes with killings, face-slappings, and confrontations.

    Spanish-English dictionary > pelea a bofetadas

  • 20 poner el grito en el cielo

    figurado to hit the ceiling, hit the roof
    ————————
    to hit the ceiling
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    (v.) = be (all) up in arms, kick up + a stink, kick up + a fuss, blow + Posesivo + top, make + a row, make + a ruckus, kick up + a row, blow + Posesivo + lid, blow + Posesivo + stack, scream + blue murder, froth at + the mouth, shout + blue murder
    Ex. And everyone who reads, writes, sings, does research, or teaches should be up in arms but the real question is why so few people are complaining.
    Ex. Encouraging an interest in maths among grown-ups is fine and dandy, but kicking up a stink about the lack of maths teachers is far more important.
    Ex. If the cafe say it's butter and it's marge they could be in trouble if anyone cared to kick up a fuss.
    Ex. Yoga is better for people who are always blowing their top and who are therefore prone to high blood pressure.
    Ex. Some people have a neurotic, exaggerated sense of self-importance and will nitpick and make a row over just everything in every shop or restaurant.
    Ex. At most summer camps, children shriek, laugh and generally make a ruckus.
    Ex. The environmentalists have now kicked up a row over the cutting of trees along the Palace Road charging that the work was illegal.
    Ex. Of course her initial reaction was to blow her lid, but she didn't -- instead she took the high road and simply just left.
    Ex. She really blew her stack as she stomped out of the sales manager's office talking to herself.
    Ex. She hates water for some reason, and whenever we go to put her togs on, she screams blue murder, and it is a 15 minute struggle to get her togs on.
    Ex. This luxurious hotel was not a likely setting for union leaders to froth at the mouth over government cutbacks.
    Ex. There are more religously motivated killings in America than what you have in Nigeria and yet nobody is shouting blue murder.
    * * *
    (v.) = be (all) up in arms, kick up + a stink, kick up + a fuss, blow + Posesivo + top, make + a row, make + a ruckus, kick up + a row, blow + Posesivo + lid, blow + Posesivo + stack, scream + blue murder, froth at + the mouth, shout + blue murder

    Ex: And everyone who reads, writes, sings, does research, or teaches should be up in arms but the real question is why so few people are complaining.

    Ex: Encouraging an interest in maths among grown-ups is fine and dandy, but kicking up a stink about the lack of maths teachers is far more important.
    Ex: If the cafe say it's butter and it's marge they could be in trouble if anyone cared to kick up a fuss.
    Ex: Yoga is better for people who are always blowing their top and who are therefore prone to high blood pressure.
    Ex: Some people have a neurotic, exaggerated sense of self-importance and will nitpick and make a row over just everything in every shop or restaurant.
    Ex: At most summer camps, children shriek, laugh and generally make a ruckus.
    Ex: The environmentalists have now kicked up a row over the cutting of trees along the Palace Road charging that the work was illegal.
    Ex: Of course her initial reaction was to blow her lid, but she didn't -- instead she took the high road and simply just left.
    Ex: She really blew her stack as she stomped out of the sales manager's office talking to herself.
    Ex: She hates water for some reason, and whenever we go to put her togs on, she screams blue murder, and it is a 15 minute struggle to get her togs on.
    Ex: This luxurious hotel was not a likely setting for union leaders to froth at the mouth over government cutbacks.
    Ex: There are more religously motivated killings in America than what you have in Nigeria and yet nobody is shouting blue murder.

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