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1 socavar
v.1 to dig under (excavar por debajo).2 to undermine, to erode, to cut the ground from under, to dig away.Las lluvias socavan la tierra The rain undermines the soil.Las penas socavan el alma Woe undermines the soul.3 to weaken, to debilitate, to mine, to sap.El sufrimiento socava a Ricardo Suffering weakens Richard.4 to cavitate, to produce cavitation.El río socava The river produces cavitation.* * *1 (excavar) to dig under2 figurado to undermine* * *VT1) (=minar) to undermine2) (=excavar) [persona] to dig under; [agua] to hollow out3) (=debilitar) to sap, undermine* * *verbo transitivo to undermine* * *= undermine, sap, chip away, gnaw (at), undercut, hollow out.Ex. Furthermore, the value of citation bibliometry is currently being undermined by the formation of 'citation clubs', which aim to indiscriminately achieve maximum cross-citing between 'club members'.Ex. First the desire to read is sapped, then the will, and finally stamina to tackle anything but short, and immediately useful, passages.Ex. Despite the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, guaranteeing freedom of expression, there seems to be an onslaught of people chipping away at this social foundation.Ex. The rugby league is increasingly beset by a financial reward system that gnaws at its prime resource -- the players.Ex. The effects of liberalization threaten to undercut the delivery of a long cherished social objective.Ex. The Irish President said last night that Irish society is being hollowed out by individualism.* * *verbo transitivo to undermine* * *= undermine, sap, chip away, gnaw (at), undercut, hollow out.Ex: Furthermore, the value of citation bibliometry is currently being undermined by the formation of 'citation clubs', which aim to indiscriminately achieve maximum cross-citing between 'club members'.
Ex: First the desire to read is sapped, then the will, and finally stamina to tackle anything but short, and immediately useful, passages.Ex: Despite the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, guaranteeing freedom of expression, there seems to be an onslaught of people chipping away at this social foundation.Ex: The rugby league is increasingly beset by a financial reward system that gnaws at its prime resource -- the players.Ex: The effects of liberalization threaten to undercut the delivery of a long cherished social objective.Ex: The Irish President said last night that Irish society is being hollowed out by individualism.* * *socavar [A1 ]vtto undermine* * *
socavar verbo transitivo
1 to undermine
2 fig (minar, destruir) to undermine
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undermine
* * *socavar vt1. [debilitar] to undermine2. [excavar por debajo] to dig under* * *v/t tb figundermine* * *socavar vt: to undermine -
2 morbhach
land liable to sea flooding, Irish murbhach, Middle Irish murmhagh; from muir and magh. Hence the locative A' Mhor'oich, the Gaelic name of Lovat. Aran Irish muirbheach, sandy soil by the seaside. -
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1) General subject: a son of the soil, beastliness, black, caked mud ( on one's shoes), clay, dirt, dirtiness, dunghill, feculence, filth, foulness, gook, grime (тж. перен.), grubbiness, impurity, mess hall, messroom, mire (find oneself in the mire - оказаться в затруднительном положении), muck, mud, muddiness, ordure, puddle, slobber, slosh, sludge, slush, smooch, smut, smutch, soil, squalor, squatter, squelch, sullage, yellow dirt, filthiness2) Geology: basic sediment, cuttings, doit, ooze, silt3) Naval: contaminant4) Colloquial: mess5) Literal: sewerage6) Engineering: cleanings (собранная при очистке), contaminating impurity, smudge7) Jocular: real estate (на руках, лице)8) Rare: soilure9) Australian slang: grot10) Automobile industry: debris11) Architecture: grim, sordidness12) Mining: debris (в жидкости гидросистемы)13) Irish: slob15) Jargon: gunge, plonk, scuz(z) (What is this scuzz all over the floor? Что за грязь повсюду на полу?), yuck, bare-face, bare-faced, bareface, barefaced, gunk, prut16) Oil: bottom sediment, bottom settlings, muck (в отстойнике для бурового раствора), offscum, slurry (скапливающаяся в скважине)17) Ecology: cleanings (собранные при очистке), sordes18) Drilling: BS (bottom settlings), slime19) Sakhalin energy glossary: bottom settings (b.s.)20) Makarov: caked mud, garbage (бессмысленные данные, заполняющие некоторую область памяти), slud -
4 musach
nasty, Irish mosach ( O'R., Sh.), Welsh mws, effluvia, stinking, Breton mous, muck, mouz, crepitus ventris: *musso-, *mud-so-, root mud, be foul or wet; Greek $$G músos (= $$G múd-sos), defilement, $$G múdos, clamminess, decay; Lithuanian mudas, dirty sea-grass: root mu (mu$$-), soil, befoul, Gaelic mùin, English mud, etc.
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