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  • 61 aterrador

    adj.
    terrifying, frightful, frightening, awesome.
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    1 terrifying, frightful
    * * *
    (f. - aterradora)
    adj.
    frightening, terrifying
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    - dora adjetivo terrifying
    * * *
    = frightening, terrifying, terrorising [terrorizing, -USA], frightful, fear-inducing, hideous, hair-raising, groundshaking, creepy [creepier -comp., creepiest -sup.].
    Ex. No echo of so frightening a concept, 'class', ever lingers within the hushed precincts of our libraries.
    Ex. To the general public 'the female librarian is still angular, elderly, acidulous and terrifying', to use Geoffrey Langley's words, 'and a male librarian is impossible under any hypothesis'.
    Ex. He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex. The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.
    Ex. The author suggests that the ability to enjoy fear-inducing media increases with age.
    Ex. The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.
    Ex. This ' hair-raising' experience will allow students to have a better understanding of what energy is and why it's so important.
    Ex. The author gives an insider's perspective on what it feels like to be an Arab since the groundshaking events of 1967 when Arab hopes were unexpectedly shattered by the outcome of the Arab Israeli war.
    Ex. For me, it's like those really creepy films I used to like watching when I was a kid.
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    - dora adjetivo terrifying
    * * *
    = frightening, terrifying, terrorising [terrorizing, -USA], frightful, fear-inducing, hideous, hair-raising, groundshaking, creepy [creepier -comp., creepiest -sup.].

    Ex: No echo of so frightening a concept, 'class', ever lingers within the hushed precincts of our libraries.

    Ex: To the general public 'the female librarian is still angular, elderly, acidulous and terrifying', to use Geoffrey Langley's words, 'and a male librarian is impossible under any hypothesis'.
    Ex: He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex: The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.
    Ex: The author suggests that the ability to enjoy fear-inducing media increases with age.
    Ex: The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.
    Ex: This ' hair-raising' experience will allow students to have a better understanding of what energy is and why it's so important.
    Ex: The author gives an insider's perspective on what it feels like to be an Arab since the groundshaking events of 1967 when Arab hopes were unexpectedly shattered by the outcome of the Arab Israeli war.
    Ex: For me, it's like those really creepy films I used to like watching when I was a kid.

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    terrifying
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    aterrador
    ◊ - dora adjetivo

    terrifying
    aterrador,-ora adjetivo terrifying

    ' aterrador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aterradora
    English:
    chilling
    - frightful
    - terrifying
    - terrifyingly
    - blood
    - fearful
    - fearsome
    - frightening
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    aterrador, -ora adj
    terrifying
    * * *
    adj frightening, terrifying
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    aterrador, - dora adj
    : terrifying
    * * *
    aterrador adj terrifying

    Spanish-English dictionary > aterrador

  • 62 brutal

    adj.
    1 brutal (violento).
    2 wicked, brutal (informal) (extraordinary).
    3 enormous, brutal.
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    1 (cruel) brutal, savage
    2 figurado (enorme) enormous, colossal
    3 figurado (magnífico) terrific, fantastic
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    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=salvaje) brutal
    2) * (=genial) terrific *
    3) CAm (=asombroso) incredible, amazing
    * * *
    adjetivo < crimen> brutal; < atentado> savage
    * * *
    = barbaric, brutal, brutish.
    Ex. The novel is a crude barbaric mixture of verse and prose, poetry and realism, crammed with ghosts, corpses, maniacs all very unlike Racine.
    Ex. Few, if any of us, want to be involved in murder, but the brutal act of one person killing another, the motives for doing so, the personal and social consequences, all hold our attention, as newspaper editors well know and exploit = Pocos, si existe alguien, desea verse implicado en un asesinato, pero el acto brutal de una persona asesinando a otra, los motivos para hacerlo, las consecuencias personales y sociales, todo capta nuestra atención, como bien saben y explotan los directores de periódicos.
    Ex. In his most famous work, the Leviathan, Hobbes famously argued that life in the state of nature is 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'.
    ----
    * agresión brutal = vicious attack, brutal attack.
    * ataque brutal = vicious attack, brutal attack.
    * * *
    adjetivo < crimen> brutal; < atentado> savage
    * * *
    = barbaric, brutal, brutish.

    Ex: The novel is a crude barbaric mixture of verse and prose, poetry and realism, crammed with ghosts, corpses, maniacs all very unlike Racine.

    Ex: Few, if any of us, want to be involved in murder, but the brutal act of one person killing another, the motives for doing so, the personal and social consequences, all hold our attention, as newspaper editors well know and exploit = Pocos, si existe alguien, desea verse implicado en un asesinato, pero el acto brutal de una persona asesinando a otra, los motivos para hacerlo, las consecuencias personales y sociales, todo capta nuestra atención, como bien saben y explotan los directores de periódicos.
    Ex: In his most famous work, the Leviathan, Hobbes famously argued that life in the state of nature is 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'.
    * agresión brutal = vicious attack, brutal attack.
    * ataque brutal = vicious attack, brutal attack.

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    A ‹crimen› brutal; ‹atentado› savage
    B ( fam) (fenomenal, colosal) amazing ( colloq), incredible
    hace un calor brutal it's incredibly hot
    ¿qué te parece? — ¡brutal! what do you think? — terrific! o amazing!
    * * *

    brutal adjetivo ‹ crimen› brutal;
    ‹ atentado› savage
    brutal adjetivo
    1 brutal
    2 fam (excesivo, intenso) huge, enormous: el cambio es brutal, the change is tremendous
    ' brutal' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    salvaje
    - soldadesca
    - agresión
    English:
    barbaric
    - brutal
    - fabric
    - regime
    - savage
    - dog
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    brutal adj
    1. [violento] brutal
    2. Fam [extraordinario] wicked, brutal;
    un libro/una película brutal a wicked o brutal book/film;
    tengo un cansancio brutal I'm dead tired, I'm bushed;
    conseguí entradas para el concierto – ¡brutal! I got hold of some tickets for the concert – wicked o brutal!
    * * *
    adj
    2 pop
    fiesta incredible fam, terrific
    * * *
    brutal adj
    1) : brutal
    2) fam : incredible, terrific
    ♦ brutalmente adv
    * * *
    brutal adj brutal

    Spanish-English dictionary > brutal

  • 63 buena causa

    f.
    worthy cause.
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    (n.) = good cause
    Ex. This novel describes the consequences of a murder committed for good cause, as well as examining the meaning of obligation, community, and honor in a polarized society = Esta novela describe las consecuencias de un asesinato cometido por una causa justa al mismo tiempo que examina el significado de la obligación, la comunidad y el honor en una sociedad dividida.
    * * *
    (n.) = good cause

    Ex: This novel describes the consequences of a murder committed for good cause, as well as examining the meaning of obligation, community, and honor in a polarized society = Esta novela describe las consecuencias de un asesinato cometido por una causa justa al mismo tiempo que examina el significado de la obligación, la comunidad y el honor en una sociedad dividida.

    Spanish-English dictionary > buena causa

  • 64 cadena perpetua

    f.
    life imprisonment, life sentence, life term, penal servitude for life.
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    life imprisonment
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    life imprisonment; fue condenado a cadena perpetua he was sentenced to life imprisonment, he was given a life sentence
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    Ex. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for first-degree murder.
    * * *
    life imprisonment; fue condenado a cadena perpetua he was sentenced to life imprisonment, he was given a life sentence
    * * *

    Ex: He was sentenced to life imprisonment for first-degree murder.

    * * *
    life sentence

    Spanish-English dictionary > cadena perpetua

  • 65 canibalismo

    m.
    cannibalism.
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    1 cannibalism
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    SM
    1) (=antropofagia) cannibalism
    2) (=ferocidad) fierceness, savageness
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    Ex. The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.
    * * *

    Ex: The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.

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    cannibalism
    * * *

    canibalismo sustantivo masculino cannibalism
    ' canibalismo' also found in these entries:
    English:
    canibalism
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    1. [de seres vivos] cannibalism
    2. Mktg cannibalization
    * * *
    m cannibalism
    * * *
    antropofagia: cannibalism

    Spanish-English dictionary > canibalismo

  • 66 caprichoso

    adj.
    capricious, cranky, erratic, fickle.
    * * *
    1 capricious, whimsical, fanciful
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 whimsical person
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [persona] capricious
    2) [idea, novela etc] whimsical, fanciful
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    I
    - sa adjetivo
    a) ( inconstante) <carácter/persona> capricious; <tiempo/moda> changeable
    b) (difícil, exigente) fussy
    II
    - sa masculino, femenino

    es un caprichoso — ( es inconstante) he's always changing his mind; (es difícil, exigente) he's so fussy

    * * *
    = capricious, whimsical, wayward, fickle, wanton, faddish, flighty [flightier -comp., flightiest -sup.], faddy [faddier -comp., faddies -sup.].
    Ex. Panizzi introduced what seemed to his critics unwarranted and capricious complications calculated to make the catalog much more difficult for the librarian to prepare and the reader to use.
    Ex. This slightly off-balance, whimsical remark was a Marsha James' trademark.
    Ex. The article 'The wayward scholar: resources and research in popular culture' defends popular culture as a legitimate and important library resource.
    Ex. The rise and dramatic fall of E-businesses is a testimony of the fickle electronic commerce (E-commerce) market.
    Ex. The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.
    Ex. Whilst, presumably, a set of standards for the conduct of reference work, the document is in fact a hodgepodge shaped by faddish misconceptions.
    Ex. 'Anyway, to make a long story short, Huish said he knows Lisa has been a little flighty at times'.
    Ex. These emotions will have a knock-on effect on the child and may, in the case of the faddy eater, cause the situation to deteriorate.
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    * de forma caprichosa = capriciously.
    * de modo caprichoso = capriciously.
    * * *
    I
    - sa adjetivo
    a) ( inconstante) <carácter/persona> capricious; <tiempo/moda> changeable
    b) (difícil, exigente) fussy
    II
    - sa masculino, femenino

    es un caprichoso — ( es inconstante) he's always changing his mind; (es difícil, exigente) he's so fussy

    * * *
    = capricious, whimsical, wayward, fickle, wanton, faddish, flighty [flightier -comp., flightiest -sup.], faddy [faddier -comp., faddies -sup.].

    Ex: Panizzi introduced what seemed to his critics unwarranted and capricious complications calculated to make the catalog much more difficult for the librarian to prepare and the reader to use.

    Ex: This slightly off-balance, whimsical remark was a Marsha James' trademark.
    Ex: The article 'The wayward scholar: resources and research in popular culture' defends popular culture as a legitimate and important library resource.
    Ex: The rise and dramatic fall of E-businesses is a testimony of the fickle electronic commerce (E-commerce) market.
    Ex: The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.
    Ex: Whilst, presumably, a set of standards for the conduct of reference work, the document is in fact a hodgepodge shaped by faddish misconceptions.
    Ex: 'Anyway, to make a long story short, Huish said he knows Lisa has been a little flighty at times'.
    Ex: These emotions will have a knock-on effect on the child and may, in the case of the faddy eater, cause the situation to deteriorate.
    * de forma caprichosa = capriciously.
    * de modo caprichoso = capriciously.

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    1 (inconstante) ‹carácter/persona› capricious; ‹tiempo/moda› changeable
    ¡qué niño más caprichoso! what a capricious child! o this child is always changing his mind
    las estalactitas presentaban formas caprichosas the stalactites formed fanciful shapes
    2 (difícil, exigente) fussy
    masculine, feminine
    es un caprichoso (es inconstante) he's so capricious o he's always changing his mind; (es difícil, exigente) he is so fussy
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    caprichoso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo

    a) ( inconstante) ‹carácter/persona› capricious;

    ‹tiempo/moda› changeable
    b) (difícil, exigente) fussy

    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino:


    (es difícil, exigente) he's so fussy
    caprichoso,-a
    I sustantivo masculino y femenino mi hermana es una caprichosa, my sister is very impulsive
    II adjetivo
    1 (antojadizo) whimsical, fanciful
    2 (maniático, exigente) fussy
    3 (creativo, sin norma) las nubes creaban figuras caprichosas, the clouds made strange shapes
    ' caprichoso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    caprichosa
    - mañoso
    English:
    capricious
    - erratic
    - flighty
    - moody
    - whimsical
    * * *
    caprichoso, -a adj
    capricious, impulsive;
    actuar de forma caprichosa to act capriciously o impulsively
    * * *
    adj capricious
    * * *
    caprichoso, -sa adj
    antojadizo: capricious, fickle

    Spanish-English dictionary > caprichoso

  • 67 causa justa

    f.
    just cause, fair consideration.
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    (n.) = just cause, good cause
    Ex. Furthermore, if the library 's governance system is guilty of poor performance, it is more difficult to induce corrective action from a committee than from one person, who can be more easily removed for just cause.
    Ex. This novel describes the consequences of a murder committed for good cause, as well as examining the meaning of obligation, community, and honor in a polarized society = Esta novela describe las consecuencias de un asesinato cometido por una causa justa al mismo tiempo que examina el significado de la obligación, la comunidad y el honor en una sociedad dividida.
    * * *
    (n.) = just cause, good cause

    Ex: Furthermore, if the library 's governance system is guilty of poor performance, it is more difficult to induce corrective action from a committee than from one person, who can be more easily removed for just cause.

    Ex: This novel describes the consequences of a murder committed for good cause, as well as examining the meaning of obligation, community, and honor in a polarized society = Esta novela describe las consecuencias de un asesinato cometido por una causa justa al mismo tiempo que examina el significado de la obligación, la comunidad y el honor en una sociedad dividida.

    Spanish-English dictionary > causa justa

  • 68 cielo1

    1 = sky [skies, -pl.].
    Ex. She lingered there a moment and watched the cars move on the highway with a hushing swiftness against the cold gray sky.
    ----
    * azul cielo = sky blue.
    * cielo de la boca, el = roof of the mouth, the.
    * cielo despejado = cloudless sky, clear sky.
    * cielo encapotado = overcast sky.
    * cielo estrellado = starry sky.
    * cielo nublado = overcast sky.
    * cielo raso = cloudless sky.
    * el cielo rojo al atardecer augura buen tiempo, el cielo rojo al amanecer aug = red sky at night, (shepherd/sailor)'s delight, red sky in the morning, (shepherd/sailor)'s warning.
    * poner el grito en el cielo = 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, scream + blue murder, froth at + the mouth, shout + blue murder.
    * recorrer cielo y tierra = travel + far and wide.
    * regalo llovido del cielo = boon.
    * remover (el) cielo y (la) tierra = hunt + high and low, look + high and low, leave + no stone unturned, move + heaven and earth.

    Spanish-English dictionary > cielo1

  • 69 cinta de embalar

    (n.) = packing tape
    Ex. When the police searched his home after the murder they discovered a bag containing handcuffs, rope and rolls of packing tape.
    * * *

    Ex: When the police searched his home after the murder they discovered a bag containing handcuffs, rope and rolls of packing tape.

    Spanish-English dictionary > cinta de embalar

  • 70 cocaionómano

    Ex. Overall, murder victims in the city are 10 to 50 times more likely than members of the general population to be cocaine users.
    * * *

    Ex: Overall, murder victims in the city are 10 to 50 times more likely than members of the general population to be cocaine users.

    Spanish-English dictionary > cocaionómano

  • 71 cometer

    v.
    1 to commit (crimen).
    Ella cometió el crimen She committed the crime.
    2 to be done to, to be committed on.
    Se le cometió una injusticia An injustice was done to [him=her]
    * * *
    1 (crimen) to commit; (falta, error) to make
    * * *
    verb
    2) make
    * * *
    VT [+ crimen, delito, pecado] to commit; [+ atentado] to carry out; [+ error] to make
    * * *
    verbo transitivo <crimen/delito/pecado> to commit; <error/falta> to make
    * * *
    Ex. This article examines the specific methods used to address the abuses perpetrated by governments and to reveal the truth.
    ----
    * a base de cometer errores = the hard way.
    * a fuerza de cometer errores = the hard way.
    * aprender Algo a base de cometer errores = learn + Nombre + the hard way.
    * cometer el error de = fall into + the error of, blunder into.
    * cometer errores por despiste = bump into + lampposts.
    * cometer plagio = plagiarise [plagiarize, -USA].
    * cometer suicidio = commit + suicide.
    * cometer un acto de traición = commit + an act of treason.
    * cometer un acto violento = commit + violence.
    * cometer una imprudencia = commit + imprudence, be reckless.
    * cometer una injusticia = do + injustice.
    * cometer una tontería = pull + stunt.
    * cometer una traición = commit + treason, commit + an act of treason.
    * cometer un crimen = commit + murder.
    * cometer un delito = commit + crime, carry out + a crime.
    * cometer un disparate = make + a blunder, make + a bloomer, put + Posesivo + foot in it, put + Posesivo + foot in + Posesivo + mouth, stick + Posesivo + foot in it, drop + a clanger, drop + a bollock, blunder.
    * cometer un error = commit + error, make + mistake, make + error, be caught out, slip up.
    * cometer un error garrafal = commit + blunder, make + a bloomer, make + a blunder, drop + a clanger, drop + a bollock, blunder.
    * cometer un fraude = commit + fraud.
    * cometer un pecado = commit + sin, sin.
    * cometer un robo = execute + theft.
    * cometer un suicidio político = commit + political suicide.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo <crimen/delito/pecado> to commit; <error/falta> to make
    * * *

    Ex: This article examines the specific methods used to address the abuses perpetrated by governments and to reveal the truth.

    * a base de cometer errores = the hard way.
    * a fuerza de cometer errores = the hard way.
    * aprender Algo a base de cometer errores = learn + Nombre + the hard way.
    * cometer el error de = fall into + the error of, blunder into.
    * cometer errores por despiste = bump into + lampposts.
    * cometer plagio = plagiarise [plagiarize, -USA].
    * cometer suicidio = commit + suicide.
    * cometer un acto de traición = commit + an act of treason.
    * cometer un acto violento = commit + violence.
    * cometer una imprudencia = commit + imprudence, be reckless.
    * cometer una injusticia = do + injustice.
    * cometer una tontería = pull + stunt.
    * cometer una traición = commit + treason, commit + an act of treason.
    * cometer un crimen = commit + murder.
    * cometer un delito = commit + crime, carry out + a crime.
    * cometer un disparate = make + a blunder, make + a bloomer, put + Posesivo + foot in it, put + Posesivo + foot in + Posesivo + mouth, stick + Posesivo + foot in it, drop + a clanger, drop + a bollock, blunder.
    * cometer un error = commit + error, make + mistake, make + error, be caught out, slip up.
    * cometer un error garrafal = commit + blunder, make + a bloomer, make + a blunder, drop + a clanger, drop + a bollock, blunder.
    * cometer un fraude = commit + fraud.
    * cometer un pecado = commit + sin, sin.
    * cometer un robo = execute + theft.
    * cometer un suicidio político = commit + political suicide.

    * * *
    cometer [E1 ]
    vt
    ‹crimen/delito› to commit; ‹error/falta› to make; ‹pecado› to commit
    cometí la estupidez de decírselo I made the stupid mistake of telling him
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    cometer ( conjugate cometer) verbo transitivo ‹crimen/delito/pecado› to commit;
    ‹error/falta› to make
    cometer verbo transitivo
    1 (una falta, un error) to make: cuídate de no cometer ningún error, be careful not to make any mistakes
    2 (perpetrar) to commit: han atrapado al delincuente que cometió el atraco, they've caught the delinquent who committed the robbery
    ' cometer' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    columpiarse
    - confundirse
    - desliz
    - errar
    - incurrir
    - ortografía
    - perpetrar
    - equivocar
    - error
    English:
    careless
    - commit
    - foul
    - goof
    - lapse
    - make
    - mistake
    - offence
    - perjury
    - perpetrate
    - slip up
    - wrong
    - blunder
    - hard
    - injustice
    - offend
    - perjure
    * * *
    [crimen] to commit; [error, falta de ortografía] to make; [pecado] to commit
    * * *
    v/t commit; error make
    * * *
    1) : to commit
    2)
    cometer un error : to make a mistake
    * * *
    1. (delito) to commit [pt. & pp. committed]
    2. (error, falta) to make

    Spanish-English dictionary > cometer

  • 72 cometer un crimen

    (v.) = commit + murder
    Ex. In the novel the murders have been committed by counterfeiters, not by Lizzie, and Lizzie herself is fictionalized in terms of prevailing Victorian stereotypes of womanhood.
    * * *
    (v.) = commit + murder

    Ex: In the novel the murders have been committed by counterfeiters, not by Lizzie, and Lizzie herself is fictionalized in terms of prevailing Victorian stereotypes of womanhood.

    Spanish-English dictionary > cometer un crimen

  • 73 cometido por pandillas

    (adj.) = gang-related
    Ex. A murder victim shot through the heart in a gang-related killing managed to name his attacker 'in his dying breath'.
    * * *
    (adj.) = gang-related

    Ex: A murder victim shot through the heart in a gang-related killing managed to name his attacker 'in his dying breath'.

    Spanish-English dictionary > cometido por pandillas

  • 74 creer que estar bien

    (v.) = feel + right
    Ex. Two teenagers who wanted to experience murder told police it ' felt right' to strangle a friend and bury her body.
    * * *
    (v.) = feel + right

    Ex: Two teenagers who wanted to experience murder told police it ' felt right' to strangle a friend and bury her body.

    Spanish-English dictionary > creer que estar bien

  • 75 cruel

    adj.
    cruel.
    * * *
    1 (persona) cruel (con/para, to)
    2 (clima) harsh, severe
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ cruel
    * * *
    adjetivo cruel

    la venganza será cruel — (hum) just you wait! (I'll get you!) (colloq)

    * * *
    = brutal, cruel, perverse, unkind, callous, cold-blooded, merciless, brutish, ferocious, heartless, cutthroat.
    Nota: Adjetivo.
    Ex. Few, if any of us, want to be involved in murder, but the brutal act of one person killing another, the motives for doing so, the personal and social consequences, all hold our attention, as newspaper editors well know and exploit = Pocos, si existe alguien, desea verse implicado en un asesinato, pero el acto brutal de una persona asesinando a otra, los motivos para hacerlo, las consecuencias personales y sociales, todo capta nuestra atención, como bien saben y explotan los directores de periódicos.
    Ex. With cruel suddenness she was being called upon to cover up for him.
    Ex. The demand for business information, in relation to its price, is rather perverse in that high price often generates a high demand.
    Ex. The enumeration at 940.5316: Children and other noncombatants; Pacifists; Enemy sympathizers seems a little unkind, if nothing else.
    Ex. Not all large publishing companies are conducted in a callous and philistine manner, motivated solely by profit.
    Ex. He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.
    Ex. The author discusses art critic Harry Quilter, usually remembered today as 'Arry,' the butt of merciless lampooning by J.M. Whistler.
    Ex. In his most famous work, the Leviathan, Hobbes famously argued that life in the state of nature is 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'.
    Ex. One by one, he wiped the floor with opponents who had spoken in the debate -- with a ferocious blend of rant, rhetoric and rumbustious counterattack.
    Ex. However, I knew there was a problem when I actually cared more about the relationship between the secondary characters of Josh McCool, heartless flunky of Warren's, and Mia.
    Ex. As the saying goes, 'Be as innocent as a lamb, and as wily as a fox' -- shrewdness is a valuable attribute in this cutthroat world.
    ----
    * volverse cruel = become + vicious.
    * * *
    adjetivo cruel

    la venganza será cruel — (hum) just you wait! (I'll get you!) (colloq)

    * * *
    = brutal, cruel, perverse, unkind, callous, cold-blooded, merciless, brutish, ferocious, heartless, cutthroat.
    Nota: Adjetivo.

    Ex: Few, if any of us, want to be involved in murder, but the brutal act of one person killing another, the motives for doing so, the personal and social consequences, all hold our attention, as newspaper editors well know and exploit = Pocos, si existe alguien, desea verse implicado en un asesinato, pero el acto brutal de una persona asesinando a otra, los motivos para hacerlo, las consecuencias personales y sociales, todo capta nuestra atención, como bien saben y explotan los directores de periódicos.

    Ex: With cruel suddenness she was being called upon to cover up for him.
    Ex: The demand for business information, in relation to its price, is rather perverse in that high price often generates a high demand.
    Ex: The enumeration at 940.5316: Children and other noncombatants; Pacifists; Enemy sympathizers seems a little unkind, if nothing else.
    Ex: Not all large publishing companies are conducted in a callous and philistine manner, motivated solely by profit.
    Ex: He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.
    Ex: The author discusses art critic Harry Quilter, usually remembered today as 'Arry,' the butt of merciless lampooning by J.M. Whistler.
    Ex: In his most famous work, the Leviathan, Hobbes famously argued that life in the state of nature is 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'.
    Ex: One by one, he wiped the floor with opponents who had spoken in the debate -- with a ferocious blend of rant, rhetoric and rumbustious counterattack.
    Ex: However, I knew there was a problem when I actually cared more about the relationship between the secondary characters of Josh McCool, heartless flunky of Warren's, and Mia.
    Ex: As the saying goes, 'Be as innocent as a lamb, and as wily as a fox' -- shrewdness is a valuable attribute in this cutthroat world.
    * volverse cruel = become + vicious.

    * * *
    cruel
    aquello fue una jugada cruel del destino that was a cruel twist of fate
    fueron muy crueles con él they were very cruel to him
    la venganza será cruel ( hum); just you wait! (I'll get you!) ( colloq)
    * * *

    cruel adjetivo
    cruel;

    cruel adjetivo cruel

    ' cruel' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bárbara
    - bárbaro
    - cebarse
    - desalmada
    - desalmado
    - draconiana
    - draconiano
    - mirada
    - salvaje
    - sañosa
    - sañoso
    - sañuda
    - sañudo
    - truculenta
    - truculento
    - verduga
    - verdugo
    - crueldad
    - inhumano
    - sanguinario
    English:
    brutal
    - callous
    - cheap
    - cruel
    - cutthroat
    - hard
    - heartless
    - inhuman
    - savage
    - unkind
    - vicious
    - blood
    - cold
    - fiend
    - inhumane
    - inhumanity
    - outrage
    * * *
    cruel adj
    1. [persona, acción] cruel;
    fuiste muy cruel con ella you were very cruel to her
    2. [dolor] excruciating, terrible
    3. [clima] harsh
    4. [duda] terrible
    * * *
    adj cruel
    * * *
    cruel adj
    : cruel
    ♦ cruelmente adv
    * * *
    cruel adj cruel

    Spanish-English dictionary > cruel

  • 76 cuerdo

    adj.
    1 sane, sound, not crazy, not insane.
    2 sensible, healthy, sound, sane.
    3 balanced, commonsensible, sound in mind, commonsensical.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: cordar.
    * * *
    1 (persona) sane
    2 (acción) prudent, sensible
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (persona) sane person, person in one's right mind
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [persona] sane
    2) [acto] sensible, wise
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) [estar] ( en su sano juicio) sane
    b) [ser] ( sensato) sensible
    * * *
    = sane, mentally fit.
    Ex. Democracy to be sane must be desired by a people qualified by their own understanding to judge it and shape its course.
    Ex. A panel of three psychiatrists has found Payton Rapozo mentally fit to stand trial for murder.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) [estar] ( en su sano juicio) sane
    b) [ser] ( sensato) sensible
    * * *
    = sane, mentally fit.

    Ex: Democracy to be sane must be desired by a people qualified by their own understanding to judge it and shape its course.

    Ex: A panel of three psychiatrists has found Payton Rapozo mentally fit to stand trial for murder.

    * * *
    cuerdo -da
    1 [ ESTAR] (en su sano juicio) sane
    el pobre no está cuerdo the poor man is insane o isn't in his right mind
    de cuerdo y loco todos tenemos un poco we're all a little crazy in one way or another
    2 [ SER] (sensato) sensible
    un cuerdo consejo a piece of sensible o sane advice
    * * *

    cuerdo
    ◊ -da adjetivo [estar] sane;

    no está cuerdo he is insane
    cuerdo,-a adjetivo sane

    ' cuerdo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cuerda
    English:
    right
    - sane
    * * *
    cuerdo, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [sano de juicio] sane;
    no está cuerdo he's insane, he's not in his right mind
    2. [sensato] sensible
    ♦ nm,f
    sane person
    * * *
    adj
    1 sane
    2 ( sensato) sensible
    * * *
    cuerdo, -da adj
    : sane, sensible
    * * *
    cuerdo adj
    1. (juicioso) sane
    2. (sensato) wise

    Spanish-English dictionary > cuerdo

  • 77 dantesco

    adj.
    1 gruesome, horrible, frightening.
    2 Dantesque in style, Dantean in style.
    3 of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings.
    * * *
    1 Dantesque
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (Literat) of Dante, relating to Dante
    2) (=horrible) nightmarish
    * * *
    - ca adjetivo ( de Dante) Dantesque; ( terrible) horrific
    * * *
    = gruesome, frightening, nightmarish.
    Ex. We hear horrendous tales of shootings in schools and colleges and gruesome murder of parents.
    Ex. No echo of so frightening a concept, 'class', ever lingers within the hushed precincts of our libraries.
    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.
    * * *
    - ca adjetivo ( de Dante) Dantesque; ( terrible) horrific
    * * *
    = gruesome, frightening, nightmarish.

    Ex: We hear horrendous tales of shootings in schools and colleges and gruesome murder of parents.

    Ex: No echo of so frightening a concept, 'class', ever lingers within the hushed precincts of our libraries.
    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.

    * * *
    1 (de Dante) Dantesque
    2 (terrible) horrific
    * * *

    dantesco,-a adjetivo horrific, weird, macabre: asistimos a una escena dantesca, we witnessed a shocking scene
    ' dantesco' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    dantesca
    English:
    gruesome
    * * *
    dantesco, -a adj
    1. [horroroso] horrific, grotesque
    2. Lit Dantesque, Dantean
    * * *
    adj fig
    nightmarish

    Spanish-English dictionary > dantesco

  • 78 de primer grado

    Ex. Stroud was convicted in May, 1916, of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged.
    * * *

    Ex: Stroud was convicted in May, 1916, of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de primer grado

  • 79 director de periódico

    Ex. Few, if any of us, want to be involved in murder, but the brutal act of one person killing another, the motives for doing so, the personal and social consequences, all hold our attention, as newspaper editors well know and exploit = Pocos, si existe alguien, desea verse implicado en un asesinato, pero el acto brutal de una persona asesinando a otra, los motivos para hacerlo, las consecuencias personales y sociales, todo capta nuestra atención, como bien saben y explotan los directores de periódicos.
    * * *

    Ex: Few, if any of us, want to be involved in murder, but the brutal act of one person killing another, the motives for doing so, the personal and social consequences, all hold our attention, as newspaper editors well know and exploit = Pocos, si existe alguien, desea verse implicado en un asesinato, pero el acto brutal de una persona asesinando a otra, los motivos para hacerlo, las consecuencias personales y sociales, todo capta nuestra atención, como bien saben y explotan los directores de periódicos.

    Spanish-English dictionary > director de periódico

  • 80 dividido

    adj.
    1 divided, separate, segmented, split.
    2 divided, at odds.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: dividir.
    * * *
    * * *
    = compartmentalized, polarised [polarized, -USA], splintering, cloven, divided, forked.
    Ex. A paradox of the rise of the 'electronic office' is that it has led to a compartmentalized structure of office organization.
    Ex. This novel describes the consequences of a murder committed for good cause, as well as examining the meaning of obligation, community, and honor in a polarized society = Esta novela describe las consecuencias de un asesinato cometido por una causa justa al mismo tiempo que examina el significado de la obligación, la comunidad y el honor en una sociedad dividida.
    Ex. Publishers will have to deal with a splintering market and to produce a variety of publication formats.
    Ex. It is a very old belief that the Devil always appears with a cloven foot as a distinguishing mark.
    Ex. This kind of marriage was traditionally associated with a desire to rejoin divided properties.
    Ex. One theory suggests that the forked section of the hieroglyph represents an animal's legs with the central shaft as the body or elongated neck (like a giraffe).
    ----
    * dividido en disciplinas = discipline-oriented [discipline oriented].
    * familia dividida = divided family.
    * opiniones divididas = divided opinions.
    * opinión + estar dividida = opinion + be divided.
    * * *
    = compartmentalized, polarised [polarized, -USA], splintering, cloven, divided, forked.

    Ex: A paradox of the rise of the 'electronic office' is that it has led to a compartmentalized structure of office organization.

    Ex: This novel describes the consequences of a murder committed for good cause, as well as examining the meaning of obligation, community, and honor in a polarized society = Esta novela describe las consecuencias de un asesinato cometido por una causa justa al mismo tiempo que examina el significado de la obligación, la comunidad y el honor en una sociedad dividida.
    Ex: Publishers will have to deal with a splintering market and to produce a variety of publication formats.
    Ex: It is a very old belief that the Devil always appears with a cloven foot as a distinguishing mark.
    Ex: This kind of marriage was traditionally associated with a desire to rejoin divided properties.
    Ex: One theory suggests that the forked section of the hieroglyph represents an animal's legs with the central shaft as the body or elongated neck (like a giraffe).
    * dividido en disciplinas = discipline-oriented [discipline oriented].
    * familia dividida = divided family.
    * opiniones divididas = divided opinions.
    * opinión + estar dividida = opinion + be divided.

    * * *
    dividido, -a adj
    divided

    Spanish-English dictionary > dividido

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