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61 plunder
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62 ransack
['rænsæk, ]( American[) ræn'sæk]1) (to search thoroughly in: She ransacked the whole house for her keys.) a răscoli2) (loot, plunder: The army ransacked the conquered city.) a prăda -
63 raze
[reiz](to destroy completely, especially by fire: to raze a city to the ground.) a rade -
64 recapture
[ri'kæp ə] 1. verb1) (to capture again: The soldiers recaptured the city; The prisoners were recaptured.) a recaptura2) (to convey (the feeling of something from the past): to recapture the atmosphere of medieval London.) a recrea, a crea din nou2. noun(the process of recapturing or being recaptured.) prindere din nou -
65 reduce
[rə'dju:s]1) (to make less, smaller etc: The shop reduced its prices; The train reduced speed.) a reduce2) (to lose weight by dieting: I must reduce to get into that dress.) a face cură de slăbire3) (to drive, or put, into a particular (bad) state: The bombs reduced the city to ruins; She was so angry, she was almost reduced to tears; During the famine, many people were reduced to eating grass and leaves.) a reduce (la); a obliga (să)•- reduction -
66 ruin
['ru:in] 1. noun1) (a broken, collapsed or decayed state: the ruin of a city.) ruină2) (a cause of collapse, decay etc: Drink was his ruin.) pierzanie3) (financial disaster; complete loss of money: The company is facing ruin.) dezastru financiar2. verb1) (to cause ruin to: The scandal ruined his career.) a ruina2) (to spoil; to treat too indulgently: You are ruining that child!) a strica; a răsfăţa•- ruined
- ruins
- in ruins -
67 seduce
[si'dju:s](to persuade or attract into doing, thinking etc (something, especially something foolish or wrong): She was seduced by the attractions of the big city.) a seduce- seductive -
68 seduction
noun (something that tempts or attracts: the seductions of life in the big city.) seducţie -
69 sprawl
[spro:l] 1. verb1) (to sit, lie or fall with the arms and legs spread out widely and carelessly: Several tired-looking people were sprawling in armchairs.) a se întinde, a se tolăni2) ((of a town etc) to spread out in an untidy and irregular way.) a se întinde2. noun1) (an act of sprawling: He was lying in a careless sprawl on the sofa.) tolănire2) (an untidy and irregular area (of houses etc): She lost her way in the grimy sprawl of the big city.) întindere tentaculară• -
70 sprawling
adjective the huge, sprawling city of Los Angeles.) tentacular -
71 still
I 1. [stil] adjective1) (without movement or noise: The city seems very still in the early morning; Please stand/sit/keep/hold still while I brush your hair!; still (= calm) water/weather.) imobil, liniştit2) ((of drinks) not fizzy: still orange juice.) neacidulat2. noun(a photograph selected from a cinema film: The magazine contained some stills from the new film.) fotografie- stillborn II [stil] adverb1) (up to and including the present time, or the time mentioned previously: Are you still working for the same firm?; By Saturday he had still not / still hadn't replied to my letter.) încă2) (nevertheless; in spite of that: Although the doctor told him to rest, he still went on working; This picture is not valuable - still, I like it.) cu toate acestea3) (even: He seemed very ill in the afternoon and in the evening looked still worse.) încă -
72 street directory
(a booklet giving an index and plans of a city's streets.) hartă a oraşului -
73 subdivision
[-'viʒən]1) (subdividing or the parts resulting from doing this.) subdiviziune2) ((American) a portion of land divided up for housing etc; a zone.)3) ((American) a residential area on the outskirts of a city or town: professionals working from home by means of their computers and living in isolated subdivisions.) -
74 suburb
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75 subway
1) (an underground passage eg for pedestrians, under a busy road: Cross by the subway.) pasaj subteran2) (an underground railway in a city: Go by subway.) metrou -
76 surrounding
adjective (lying or being all round: the city and its surrounding suburbs.) înconjurător -
77 swinging
adjective (fashionable and exciting: the swinging city of London.) la modă -
78 take by storm
(to capture by means of a sudden violent attack: The invaders took the city by storm.) a lua cu asalt -
79 terminal
['tə:minəl] 1. noun1) (a building containing the arrival and departure areas for passengers at an airport or one in the centre of a city or town where passengers can buy tickets for air travel etc and can be transported by bus etc to an airport: an air terminal.) aerogară2) (a usually large station at either end of a railway line, or one for long-distance buses: a bus terminal.) gară/staţie terminus3) (in an electric circuit, a point of connection to a battery etc: the positive/negative terminal.) bornă4) (a device linked to a computer by which the computer can be operated.) terminal2. adjective((of an illness etc) in the final stage before death: This ward is for patients with terminal cancer.) în fază terminală -
80 town
1) (a group of houses, shops, schools etc, that is bigger than a village but smaller than a city: I'm going into town to buy a dress; He's in town doing some shopping.) oraş (mic)2) (the people who live in such a group of houses etc: The whole town turned out to greet the heroes.) oraş3) (towns in general as opposed to the countryside: Do you live in the country or the town?) oraş•- town hall
- townsfolk
- townspeople
- go to town
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