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  • 1 retórica

    adj.
    rhetorical, oratorical.
    f.
    1 rhetoric.
    2 figure of speech.
    3 rhetorician, one who speaks with eloquence.
    4 one who teaches rhetoric.
    * * *
    1 rhetoric
    1 familiar verbiage sing
    \
    usar mucha retórica familiar to be full of hot air
    * * *
    SF
    1) (Literat) rhetoric
    2) pl retóricas * (=palabrería) hot air sing, mere words
    * * *
    femenino (Lit) rhetoric; ( manera de hablar) rhetoric; ( palabrería) tb
    * * *
    = rhetoric, discourse, hot air.
    Ex. The rhetoric of curriculum change in SLIS is full of such large judgements and unanswered questions.
    Ex. In many discourses 'policy making' and 'decision making' are synonymous terms.
    Ex. All these annual events seem to generate a lot of hot air but very little materializes as a result especially in the Government sector.
    ----
    * retórica electoral = electoral discourse.
    * retórica política = political rhetoric.
    * * *
    femenino (Lit) rhetoric; ( manera de hablar) rhetoric; ( palabrería) tb
    * * *
    = rhetoric, discourse, hot air.

    Ex: The rhetoric of curriculum change in SLIS is full of such large judgements and unanswered questions.

    Ex: In many discourses 'policy making' and 'decision making' are synonymous terms.
    Ex: All these annual events seem to generate a lot of hot air but very little materializes as a result especially in the Government sector.
    * retórica electoral = electoral discourse.
    * retórica política = political rhetoric.

    * * *
    1 ( Lit) rhetoric
    retóricas empty rhetoric
    * * *

    retórico,-a adjetivo rhetorical
    retórica sustantivo femenino
    1 rhetoric
    2 pey (hablar afectado, artificioso) rhetoric
    3 fam pey (palabrería) déjate de retóricas y dinos qué ocurrió realmente, cut the nonsense and tell us what really happened
    ' retórica' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    vacío
    English:
    apostrophe
    - figure of speech
    - rhetoric
    - rhetorical
    - figure
    * * *
    1. [arte] rhetoric
    2. [habla rebuscada] rhetoric, bombast
    * * *
    f rhetoric
    * * *
    : rhetoric

    Spanish-English dictionary > retórica

  • 2 retórica política

    Ex. His political rhetoric on religion, finance, and peace allowed working men to be brought within the pale of the constitution.
    * * *

    Ex: His political rhetoric on religion, finance, and peace allowed working men to be brought within the pale of the constitution.

    Spanish-English dictionary > retórica política

  • 3 abandonar

    v.
    1 to leave (place).
    María abandonó la habitación rápidamente Mary abandoned the room quickly.
    2 to leave (person).
    3 to give up (estudios).
    abandonó la carrera en el tercer año she dropped out of university in her third year, she gave up her studies in her third year
    4 to abandon, to desert, to forsake, to bail out on.
    Pedro abandonó a su familia Peter abandoned his family.
    Silvia abandonó sus sueños por Pedro Silvia abandoned her dreams for Peter.
    5 to quit, to cease trying, to desist, to give up.
    María abandonó Mary quit.
    6 to check out on.
    * * *
    1 (desamparar) to abandon, forsake
    2 (lugar) to leave, quit
    3 (actividad) to give up, withdraw from
    4 (traicionar) to desert
    5 (renunciar) to relinquish, renounce
    6 (descuidar) to neglect
    7 DEPORTE (retirarse) to withdraw from
    1 (descuidarse) to neglect oneself, let oneself go
    2 (entregarse) to give oneself up (a, to)
    3 (ceder) to give in
    * * *
    verb
    •
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=dejar abandonado) [+ cónyuge, hijo] to abandon, desert; [+ animal, casa, posesiones] to abandon; [+ obligaciones] to neglect

    la abandonó por otra mujer — he abandoned o deserted her for another woman

    2) (=marcharse de) [+ lugar, organización] to leave
    3) (=renunciar a) [+ estudios, proyecto] to give up, abandon; [+ costumbre, cargo] to give up; [+ privilegio, título] to renounce, relinquish

    hemos abandonado la idea de montar un negocio — we have given up o abandoned the idea of starting a business

    si el tratamiento no da resultado lo abandonaremos — if the treatment doesn't work, we'll abandon it

    4) [buen humor, suerte] to desert
    2. VI
    1) (Atletismo) [antes de la prueba] to pull out, withdraw; [durante la prueba] to pull out, retire
    2) (Boxeo) to concede defeat, throw in the towel * o (EEUU) sponge
    3) (Ajedrez) to resign, concede
    4) (Inform) to quit
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (frml) < lugar> to leave
    b) <familia/bebé> to leave, abandon; <marido/amante> to leave; <coche/barco> to abandon
    2) fuerzas to desert
    3)
    a) <actividad/propósito/esperanza> to give up

    abandonó la lucha — he gave up the fight, he abandoned the struggle

    abandonar los estudios — to drop out of school/college

    b) (Dep) <carrera/partido> to retire, pull out
    2.
    abandonar vi (Dep)
    a) (antes de la carrera, competición) to withdraw, pull out
    b) (iniciada la carrera, competición) to retire, pull out; ( en ajedrez) to resign; (en boxeo, lucha) to concede defeat
    3.
    abandonarse v pron

    abandonarse a algo — a vicios/placeres to abandon oneself to something

    2) ( en el aspecto personal) to let oneself go
    * * *
    = abandon, abort, drop, eschew, give up, quit, relinquish, stop, leave + wandering in, forsake, sweep aside, desert, opt out of, scrap, pull back, ditch, surrender, bail out, bargain away, dump, maroon, flake out, leave by + the wayside, get away, desist, go + cold turkey, walk out on, walk out, jump + ship.
    Ex. The Library of Congress has now reconsidered the position, and abandoned what was known as its compatible headings policy.
    Ex. It is important to know what police or fire responses are triggered by alarms and how that reaction can be aborted and the alarm silenced.
    Ex. Unfruitful lines of enquiry are dropped and new and more promising search terms are introduced as the search progresses.
    Ex. However, most contributors to the debate about the future of SLIS have eschewed practicalities in favour of sweeping and dramatic generalizations.
    Ex. If support for quality cataloging is not going to be given, I think we should give it up entirely.
    Ex. If you decide not to send or save the message, replace the question mark in front of ' Quit' with another character.
    Ex. The Library will consider relinquishing them only when there is strong assurance that their transfer would not adversely affect the library community.
    Ex. Program function key 1 (FP1) tells DOBIS/LIBIS to stop whatever it is doing and go back to the function selection screen.
    Ex. It is our professional duty to help the reader, leading him from author to author, book to book, with enough sure-footed confidence that he is guided up the literary mountain and not left wandering in the viewless foothills because of one's own incompetence.
    Ex. Indeed, she was delighted to forsake the urban reality of steel and glass, traffic and crime, aspirin and litter, for the sort of over-the-fence friendliness of the smaller city.
    Ex. The development of optical fibres for information transmission has exciting potential here, but there is a very large investment in the present systems which cannot be swept aside overnight.
    Ex. Recently, however, libraries have deserted the individual and have pandered too much to the needs of the general public.
    Ex. The author takes a critical look at the UK government's education policy with regard to schools' ' opting out' of local government control.
    Ex. There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.
    Ex. To pull back now would make both her and him look bad.
    Ex. It is time that higher education institutions accepted the wisdom of collaboration and ditched, once and for all, the rhetoric of competition = Ya es hora de que las instituciones de enseñanza superior acepten la colaboración y rechacen, de una vez por todas, la competitividad.
    Ex. Instead the two ecclesiastical disputes which arose from Diocletian's decree to surrender scriptures must be seen as more disastrous to Christian unity than the destruction of libraries.
    Ex. In the article ' Bailing out' 9 of the 10 librarians interviewed admitted that they were trying to get out of librarianship partly due to unrealistic expectations learned in library school.
    Ex. Reduced support is a fact of life, and librarians cannot bargain away their budget pressures.
    Ex. The books may simply be laid before the librarian as they are found, ' dumped in his lap', as one writer puts it.
    Ex. A seemingly simple tale of schoolboys marooned on an island, the novel 'Lord of the Flies' is an enigmatic and provocative piece of literature.
    Ex. The actress flaked out again and the director is trying to line up a replacement.
    Ex. She seeks to recontextualize those events that history has estranged, destroyed or capriciously left by the wayside.
    Ex. Guards in the lead car of the convoy threw their doors open and ran for cover, screaming, 'Get away, get away'.
    Ex. One of them sputtered and gesticulated with sufficient violence to induce us to desist.
    Ex. Judging by the critical responses to the article so far, it looks like the world isn't quite ready to go cold turkey on its religion addiction.
    Ex. There are many thankless jobs in this world, but does that mean you can just walk out on them for your own selfish reasons?.
    Ex. At least five members of the audience walked out during the bishop's address.
    Ex. A new study suggests that up to 40% of currently employed individuals are ready to jump ship once the economy rebounds.
    ----
    * abandonar el barco = abandon + ship.
    * abandonar las armas = put down + weapons.
    * abandonar los estudios = drop out (from school), drop out of + school.
    * abandonar los servicios de Alguien = drop out.
    * abandonarse = go to + seed.
    * abandonarse a = abandon + Reflexivo + to.
    * abandonar toda esperanza = give up + hope.
    * abandonar (toda/la) esperanza = abandon + (all) hope.
    * abandonar un hábito = stop + habit.
    * abandonar un lugar = quit + Lugar.
    * estudiante de bachiller que abandona los estudios = high-school dropout.
    * estudiante universitario que abandona los estudios = college dropout.
    * no abandonar = stick with, stand by.
    * persona que abandona Algo = quitter.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (frml) < lugar> to leave
    b) <familia/bebé> to leave, abandon; <marido/amante> to leave; <coche/barco> to abandon
    2) fuerzas to desert
    3)
    a) <actividad/propósito/esperanza> to give up

    abandonó la lucha — he gave up the fight, he abandoned the struggle

    abandonar los estudios — to drop out of school/college

    b) (Dep) <carrera/partido> to retire, pull out
    2.
    abandonar vi (Dep)
    a) (antes de la carrera, competición) to withdraw, pull out
    b) (iniciada la carrera, competición) to retire, pull out; ( en ajedrez) to resign; (en boxeo, lucha) to concede defeat
    3.
    abandonarse v pron

    abandonarse a algo — a vicios/placeres to abandon oneself to something

    2) ( en el aspecto personal) to let oneself go
    * * *
    = abandon, abort, drop, eschew, give up, quit, relinquish, stop, leave + wandering in, forsake, sweep aside, desert, opt out of, scrap, pull back, ditch, surrender, bail out, bargain away, dump, maroon, flake out, leave by + the wayside, get away, desist, go + cold turkey, walk out on, walk out, jump + ship.

    Ex: The Library of Congress has now reconsidered the position, and abandoned what was known as its compatible headings policy.

    Ex: It is important to know what police or fire responses are triggered by alarms and how that reaction can be aborted and the alarm silenced.
    Ex: Unfruitful lines of enquiry are dropped and new and more promising search terms are introduced as the search progresses.
    Ex: However, most contributors to the debate about the future of SLIS have eschewed practicalities in favour of sweeping and dramatic generalizations.
    Ex: If support for quality cataloging is not going to be given, I think we should give it up entirely.
    Ex: If you decide not to send or save the message, replace the question mark in front of ' Quit' with another character.
    Ex: The Library will consider relinquishing them only when there is strong assurance that their transfer would not adversely affect the library community.
    Ex: Program function key 1 (FP1) tells DOBIS/LIBIS to stop whatever it is doing and go back to the function selection screen.
    Ex: It is our professional duty to help the reader, leading him from author to author, book to book, with enough sure-footed confidence that he is guided up the literary mountain and not left wandering in the viewless foothills because of one's own incompetence.
    Ex: Indeed, she was delighted to forsake the urban reality of steel and glass, traffic and crime, aspirin and litter, for the sort of over-the-fence friendliness of the smaller city.
    Ex: The development of optical fibres for information transmission has exciting potential here, but there is a very large investment in the present systems which cannot be swept aside overnight.
    Ex: Recently, however, libraries have deserted the individual and have pandered too much to the needs of the general public.
    Ex: The author takes a critical look at the UK government's education policy with regard to schools' ' opting out' of local government control.
    Ex: There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.
    Ex: To pull back now would make both her and him look bad.
    Ex: It is time that higher education institutions accepted the wisdom of collaboration and ditched, once and for all, the rhetoric of competition = Ya es hora de que las instituciones de enseñanza superior acepten la colaboración y rechacen, de una vez por todas, la competitividad.
    Ex: Instead the two ecclesiastical disputes which arose from Diocletian's decree to surrender scriptures must be seen as more disastrous to Christian unity than the destruction of libraries.
    Ex: In the article ' Bailing out' 9 of the 10 librarians interviewed admitted that they were trying to get out of librarianship partly due to unrealistic expectations learned in library school.
    Ex: Reduced support is a fact of life, and librarians cannot bargain away their budget pressures.
    Ex: The books may simply be laid before the librarian as they are found, ' dumped in his lap', as one writer puts it.
    Ex: A seemingly simple tale of schoolboys marooned on an island, the novel 'Lord of the Flies' is an enigmatic and provocative piece of literature.
    Ex: The actress flaked out again and the director is trying to line up a replacement.
    Ex: She seeks to recontextualize those events that history has estranged, destroyed or capriciously left by the wayside.
    Ex: Guards in the lead car of the convoy threw their doors open and ran for cover, screaming, 'Get away, get away'.
    Ex: One of them sputtered and gesticulated with sufficient violence to induce us to desist.
    Ex: Judging by the critical responses to the article so far, it looks like the world isn't quite ready to go cold turkey on its religion addiction.
    Ex: There are many thankless jobs in this world, but does that mean you can just walk out on them for your own selfish reasons?.
    Ex: At least five members of the audience walked out during the bishop's address.
    Ex: A new study suggests that up to 40% of currently employed individuals are ready to jump ship once the economy rebounds.
    * abandonar el barco = abandon + ship.
    * abandonar las armas = put down + weapons.
    * abandonar los estudios = drop out (from school), drop out of + school.
    * abandonar los servicios de Alguien = drop out.
    * abandonarse = go to + seed.
    * abandonarse a = abandon + Reflexivo + to.
    * abandonar toda esperanza = give up + hope.
    * abandonar (toda/la) esperanza = abandon + (all) hope.
    * abandonar un hábito = stop + habit.
    * abandonar un lugar = quit + Lugar.
    * estudiante de bachiller que abandona los estudios = high-school dropout.
    * estudiante universitario que abandona los estudios = college dropout.
    * no abandonar = stick with, stand by.
    * persona que abandona Algo = quitter.

    * * *
    abandonar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ( frml); ‹lugar› to leave
    el público abandonó el teatro the audience left the theater
    se le concedió un plazo de 48 horas para abandonar el país he was given 48 hours to leave the country
    miles de personas abandonan la capital durante el verano thousands of people leave the capital in the summer
    las tropas han comenzado a abandonar el área the troops have started to pull out of o leave the area
    abandonó la reunión en señal de protesta he walked out of the meeting in protest
    2 ‹persona›
    abandonó a su familia he abandoned o deserted his family
    lo abandonó por otro she left him for another man
    abandonó al bebé en la puerta del hospital she abandoned o left the baby at the entrance to the hospital
    abandonar a algn A algo to abandon sb TO sth
    decidió volver, abandonando al grupo a su suerte he decided to turn back, abandoning the group to its fate
    3 ‹coche/barco› to abandon
    B «fuerzas» to desert
    las fuerzas lo abandonaron y cayó al suelo his strength deserted him and he fell to the floor
    la suerte me ha abandonado my luck has run out o deserted me
    nunca lo abandona el buen humor he's always good-humored, his good humor never deserts him
    C ‹actividad/propósito› to give up
    abandonó los estudios she abandoned o gave up her studies
    ¿vas a abandonar el curso cuando te falta tan poco? you're not going to drop out of o give up the course at this late stage, are you?
    abandonó la lucha he gave up the fight, he abandoned the struggle
    ha abandonado toda pretensión de salir elegido he has given up o abandoned any hopes he had of being elected
    abandonó la terapia he gave up his therapy, he stopped having therapy
    ■ abandonar
    vi
    ( Dep)
    1 (antes de iniciarse la carrera, competición) to withdraw, pull out
    2 (una vez iniciada la carrera, competición) to retire, pull out; (en ajedrez) to resign; (en boxeo, lucha) to concede defeat, throw in the towel
    A
    (descuidarse): desde que tuvo hijos se ha abandonado since she had her children she's let herself go
    no te abandones y ve al médico don't neglect your health, go and see the doctor
    B (entregarse) abandonarse A algo ‹a vicios/placeres› to abandon oneself TO sth
    se abandonó al ocio she gave herself up to o abandoned herself to a life of leisure
    se abandonó al sueño he gave in to o succumbed to sleep, he let sleep overcome him, he surrendered to sleep
    * * *

     

    abandonar ( conjugate abandonar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) (frml) ‹ lugar› to leave

    b) ‹familia/bebé› to leave, abandon;

    ‹marido/amante› to leave;
    ‹coche/barco› to abandon;

    2 [ fuerzas] to desert
    3
    a) ‹actividad/propósito/esperanza› to give up;

    ◊ abandonar los estudios to drop out of school/college

    b) (Dep) ‹carrera/partido› to retire from, pull out of

    verbo intransitivo (Dep)
    a) (en carrera, competición) to pull out


    (en boxeo, lucha) to concede defeat
    abandonarse verbo pronominal
    1 ( entregarse) abandonarse a algo ‹a vicios/placeres› to abandon oneself to sth
    2 ( en el aspecto personal) to let oneself go
    abandonar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (irse de) to leave, quit: tenemos que vernos hoy, porque mañana abandono Madrid, we've got to see eachother today because I'm leaving Madrid tomorrow
    2 (a una persona, a un animal) to abandon
    abandonar a alguien a su suerte, to leave someone to his fate
    3 (un proyecto, los estudios) to give up
    4 Dep (retirarse de una carrera) to drop out of
    (un deporte) to drop
    II vi (desfallecer) to give up: los resultados no son los esperados, pero no abandones, the results aren't as good as we expected, but don't give up
    ' abandonar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    dejar
    - botar
    - plantar
    English:
    abandon
    - back away
    - cast aside
    - caution
    - desert
    - drop
    - forsake
    - free
    - give up on
    - habit
    - idea
    - jettison
    - leave
    - quit
    - retire
    - scrap
    - stand by
    - throw in
    - walk out
    - ditch
    - give
    - maroon
    - stick
    - vacate
    - walk
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [lugar] to leave;
    [barco, vehículo] to abandon;
    abandonó la sala tras el discurso she left the hall after the speech;
    abandonó su pueblo para trabajar en la ciudad she left her home town for a job in the city;
    abandonar el barco to abandon ship;
    ¡abandonen el barco! abandon ship!;
    abandonar algo a su suerte o [m5] destino to abandon sth to its fate;
    los cascos azules abandonarán pronto la región the UN peacekeeping troops will soon be pulling out of the region
    2. [persona] to leave;
    [hijo, animal] to abandon;
    abandonó a su hijo she abandoned her son;
    abandonar a alguien a su suerte o [m5] destino to abandon sb to their fate;
    ¡nunca te abandonaré! I'll never leave you!
    3. [estudios] to give up;
    [proyecto] to abandon;
    abandonó la carrera en el tercer año she dropped out of university in her third year, she gave up her studies in her third year;
    han amenazado con abandonar las negociaciones they have threatened to walk out of the negotiations;
    han amenazado con abandonar la liga they have threatened to pull out of the league;
    abandonar la lucha to give up the fight
    4. [sujeto: suerte, buen humor] to desert;
    lo abandonaron las fuerzas y tuvo que retirarse his strength gave out and he had to drop out;
    nunca la abandona su buen humor she never loses her good humour
    ♦ vi
    1. [en carrera, competición] to pull out, to withdraw;
    [en ajedrez] to resign; [en boxeo] to throw in the towel;
    abandonó en el primer asalto his corner threw in the towel in the first round;
    una avería lo obligó a abandonar en la segunda vuelta a mechanical fault forced him to retire on the second lap
    2. [rendirse] to give up;
    no abandones ahora que estás casi al final don't give up now you've almost reached the end
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 lugar leave; a alguien abandon; a esposa, hijos desert; objeto abandon, dump
    2 idea give up, abandon; actividad give up, drop
    II v/i DEP pull out
    * * *
    1) dejar: to abandon, to leave
    2) : to give up, to quit
    abandonaron la búsqueda: they gave up the search
    * * *
    1. (una persona) to abandon / to leave [pt. & pp. left]
    2. (un sitio) to leave
    3. (una actividad) to give up [pt. gave; pp. given]
    4. (una competición) to withdraw [pt. withdraw; pp. withdrawn]

    Spanish-English dictionary > abandonar

  • 4 agresivo

    adj.
    1 aggressive, assertive, belligerent, go-getter.
    2 aggressive, combative, hostile, truculent.
    3 aggressive.
    4 predatory.
    * * *
    1 aggressive
    * * *
    (f. - agresiva)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ (=violento) aggressive; (=vigoroso) forceful, vigorous
    * * *
    - va adjetivo aggressive
    * * *
    = aggressive, belligerent, truculent, killer, sociopathic, combative, pushy [pushier -comp., pushiest -sup.], bellicose, campaigning.
    Ex. Problem patrons include, but are not limited to, illiterates simply seeking shelter, alcoholics, the homeless, the mentally disturbed, aggressive young people, and those with offensive odours.
    Ex. Dexter Rundle thought: 'The day was progressing serenely and I was feeling not at all belligerent' = Dexter Rundle pensó: "El día iba progresando con serenidad y no me sentía de ninguna manera agresivo".
    Ex. Senior staff members said that these fevers of truculent behavior had manifested themselves only within the past two or three years.
    Ex. The article has the title 'Guerilla Web strategies: killer marketing tactics to make your site the most popular on the Web'.
    Ex. The problem of optimally refining sociopathic knowledge bases is modeled as a bipartite graph.
    Ex. His book is a one-sided insider account of the scrappy, often combative style that characterized the New York intellectual crowd from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s.
    Ex. Parents can help the development of a child prodigy in an infinite number of ways, ranging from the attentive but not too pushy to the downright obsessive.
    Ex. For all their bellicose rhetoric, they still hope that diplomatic pressure will persuade Iran to compromise.
    Ex. He is fearless, courageous, campaigning, waspish and wise.
    ----
    * comportamiento agresivo = aggressive behaviour.
    * de modo agresivo = aggressively.
    * venta agresiva = hard-sell.
    * * *
    - va adjetivo aggressive
    * * *
    = aggressive, belligerent, truculent, killer, sociopathic, combative, pushy [pushier -comp., pushiest -sup.], bellicose, campaigning.

    Ex: Problem patrons include, but are not limited to, illiterates simply seeking shelter, alcoholics, the homeless, the mentally disturbed, aggressive young people, and those with offensive odours.

    Ex: Dexter Rundle thought: 'The day was progressing serenely and I was feeling not at all belligerent' = Dexter Rundle pensó: "El día iba progresando con serenidad y no me sentía de ninguna manera agresivo".
    Ex: Senior staff members said that these fevers of truculent behavior had manifested themselves only within the past two or three years.
    Ex: The article has the title 'Guerilla Web strategies: killer marketing tactics to make your site the most popular on the Web'.
    Ex: The problem of optimally refining sociopathic knowledge bases is modeled as a bipartite graph.
    Ex: His book is a one-sided insider account of the scrappy, often combative style that characterized the New York intellectual crowd from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s.
    Ex: Parents can help the development of a child prodigy in an infinite number of ways, ranging from the attentive but not too pushy to the downright obsessive.
    Ex: For all their bellicose rhetoric, they still hope that diplomatic pressure will persuade Iran to compromise.
    Ex: He is fearless, courageous, campaigning, waspish and wise.
    * comportamiento agresivo = aggressive behaviour.
    * de modo agresivo = aggressively.
    * venta agresiva = hard-sell.

    * * *
    1 (feroz, violento) aggressive
    2 ‹campaña/publicidad› aggressive, forceful
    * * *

    agresivo
    ◊ -va adjetivo

    aggressive
    agresivo,-a adjetivo aggressive

    ' agresivo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    agresiva
    - volverse
    - combativo
    English:
    aggressive
    - belligerent
    - hawkish
    - pushy
    - truculent
    * * *
    agresivo, -a adj
    1. [violento] aggressive
    2. [osado] aggressive;
    una publicidad muy agresiva very aggressive advertising
    * * *
    adj aggressive
    * * *
    agresivo, -va adj
    : aggressive
    * * *
    agresivo adj aggressive

    Spanish-English dictionary > agresivo

  • 5 altisonante

    adj.
    high-sounding.
    * * *
    1 grandiloquent, pompous
    * * *
    adjetivo highflown
    * * *
    = ringing, high-flown, bombastic.
    Ex. Some recent literature on higher education has attempted to reaffirm, with ringing rhetoric, the principle that the search for the truth is the foundation of academic ethics.
    Ex. Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex. You don't have to be bombastic to be powerful [he says in a loud voice], you can be more intimate [he says in a quieter voice].
    * * *
    adjetivo highflown
    * * *
    = ringing, high-flown, bombastic.

    Ex: Some recent literature on higher education has attempted to reaffirm, with ringing rhetoric, the principle that the search for the truth is the foundation of academic ethics.

    Ex: Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex: You don't have to be bombastic to be powerful [he says in a loud voice], you can be more intimate [he says in a quieter voice].

    * * *
    highflown
    * * *

    altisonante adjetivo grandiloquent, high-sounding
    ' altisonante' also found in these entries:
    English:
    grandiose
    - high
    * * *
    altisonante, altísono, -a adj
    high-sounding
    * * *
    adj high-flown
    * * *
    1) : pompous, affected (of language)
    2) Mex : rude, obscene (of language)

    Spanish-English dictionary > altisonante

  • 6 atroz

    adj.
    1 terrible, awful.
    hace un frío atroz it's terribly o awfully cold
    2 atrocious, horrible, inhumane, abominable.
    3 agonizing, excruciating.
    * * *
    ► adjetivo (pl atroces)
    1 (bárbaro) atrocious, outrageous
    2 familiar (enorme) enormous, huge, awful
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=terrible) atrocious; (=cruel) cruel, inhuman; (=escandaloso) outrageous
    2) * (=enorme) huge, terrific; (=malísimo) dreadful, awful
    * * *
    adjetivo (brutal, cruel) appalling; ( uso hiperbólico) atrocious, awful
    * * *
    = dismal, atrocious, brutal, frightful, dire, abysmal, excruciating, hideous, gruesome, ferocious, god-awful, heinous.
    Ex. The persistence of a dismal image is a most worrying phenomenon and one which must change if progress is to be made by SLIS.
    Ex. The public library's selection of books for small boys is atrocious.
    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. 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. Throughout the process of development, debate and enactment of the Digital Millennium Act in the USA, many dire forebodings were envisaged for the library profession.
    Ex. The communications infrastructure in Africa varies from very good to abysmal = La infraestructura de comunicaciones en †frica oscila entre muy buena y pésima.
    Ex. Loneliness can involve excruciating physical pain as well as harrowing mental suffering.
    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. We hear horrendous tales of shootings in schools and colleges and gruesome murder of parents.
    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. The director and deputies deserve the most recognition because they actually had to give up time with their families for the god-awful places we sent them.
    Ex. There are several different ways to make a stink bomb, all of which involving the use of chemicals which react in a way to create a particularly heinous odor.
    * * *
    adjetivo (brutal, cruel) appalling; ( uso hiperbólico) atrocious, awful
    * * *
    = dismal, atrocious, brutal, frightful, dire, abysmal, excruciating, hideous, gruesome, ferocious, god-awful, heinous.

    Ex: The persistence of a dismal image is a most worrying phenomenon and one which must change if progress is to be made by SLIS.

    Ex: The public library's selection of books for small boys is atrocious.
    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: 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: Throughout the process of development, debate and enactment of the Digital Millennium Act in the USA, many dire forebodings were envisaged for the library profession.
    Ex: The communications infrastructure in Africa varies from very good to abysmal = La infraestructura de comunicaciones en †frica oscila entre muy buena y pésima.
    Ex: Loneliness can involve excruciating physical pain as well as harrowing mental suffering.
    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: We hear horrendous tales of shootings in schools and colleges and gruesome murder of parents.
    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: The director and deputies deserve the most recognition because they actually had to give up time with their families for the god-awful places we sent them.
    Ex: There are several different ways to make a stink bomb, all of which involving the use of chemicals which react in a way to create a particularly heinous odor.

    * * *
    1 (brutal, cruel) appalling, terrible
    2 (uso hiperbólico) atrocious, awful, dreadful ( BrE)
    tengo un dolor de cabeza atroz I have an atrocious o an awful headache
    * * *

    atroz adjetivo
    atrocious
    atroz adjetivo
    1 (pésimo, insoportable) atrocious
    2 fam (enorme) enormous, tremendous
    ' atroz' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    insensibilidad
    - barbaridad
    - muerte
    English:
    agonizing
    - appalling
    - atrocious
    - dreadful
    - excruciating
    - heinous
    - hell
    - hideous
    - raging
    - unspeakable
    - vicious
    - crippling
    - dire
    - terrible
    * * *
    atroz adj
    1. [cruel] [crimen, tortura] horrific, barbaric
    2. [enorme]
    hace un frío atroz it's terribly o bitterly cold;
    es de una fealdad atroz he's terribly o incredibly ugly
    3. [muy malo] atrocious, awful
    * * *
    adj
    1 appalling, atrocious
    2
    :
    un éxito atroz a smash hit
    * * *
    atroz adj, pl atroces : atrocious, appalling
    ♦ atrozamente adv
    * * *
    atroz adj
    1. (cruel) atrocious / appalling
    2. (enorme) terrible
    hace un frío atroz it's terribly cold / it's freezing

    Spanish-English dictionary > atroz

  • 7 belicoso

    adj.
    bellicose, two-fisted, quarrelsome, hostile.
    * * *
    1 bellicose, aggressive
    * * *
    ADJ (=guerrero) warlike; (=agresivo) bellicose, aggressive
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    a) < pueblo> warlike, bellicose (liter)
    b) <persona/carácter> bellicose, belligerent
    * * *
    = bellicose, belligerent, aggressive.
    Ex. For all their bellicose rhetoric, they still hope that diplomatic pressure will persuade Iran to compromise.
    Ex. Dexter Rundle thought: 'The day was progressing serenely and I was feeling not at all belligerent' = Dexter Rundle pensó: "El día iba progresando con serenidad y no me sentía de ninguna manera agresivo".
    Ex. Problem patrons include, but are not limited to, illiterates simply seeking shelter, alcoholics, the homeless, the mentally disturbed, aggressive young people, and those with offensive odours.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    a) < pueblo> warlike, bellicose (liter)
    b) <persona/carácter> bellicose, belligerent
    * * *
    = bellicose, belligerent, aggressive.

    Ex: For all their bellicose rhetoric, they still hope that diplomatic pressure will persuade Iran to compromise.

    Ex: Dexter Rundle thought: 'The day was progressing serenely and I was feeling not at all belligerent' = Dexter Rundle pensó: "El día iba progresando con serenidad y no me sentía de ninguna manera agresivo".
    Ex: Problem patrons include, but are not limited to, illiterates simply seeking shelter, alcoholics, the homeless, the mentally disturbed, aggressive young people, and those with offensive odours.

    * * *
    1 ‹pueblo› warlike, bellicose ( liter)
    2 ‹persona/carácter› bellicose, belligerent
    * * *

    belicoso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo ‹ pueblo› warlike;


    ‹persona/carácter› bellicose, belligerent
    belicoso,-a adjetivo
    1 (guerrero) warlike, bellicose
    un pueblo belicoso, a warlike people
    2 (peleón, pendenciero) aggressive
    ' belicoso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    belicosa
    English:
    warlike
    * * *
    belicoso, -a adj
    1. [guerrero] bellicose, war-like
    2. [agresivo] aggressive
    * * *
    adj
    1 warlike, bellicose
    2 fig
    persona belligerent
    * * *
    belicoso, -sa adj
    1) : warlike, martial
    2) : aggressive, belligerent

    Spanish-English dictionary > belicoso

  • 8 beligerante

    adj.
    1 belligerent.
    2 fond of fighting, scrappy.
    f. & m.
    belligerent.
    * * *
    1 belligerent
    1 belligerent person
    * * *
    * * *
    adjetivo belligerent
    * * *
    = belligerent, scrappy, bellicose, truculent.
    Ex. Dexter Rundle thought: 'The day was progressing serenely and I was feeling not at all belligerent' = Dexter Rundle pensó: "El día iba progresando con serenidad y no me sentía de ninguna manera agresivo".
    Ex. His book is a one-sided insider account of the scrappy, often combative style that characterized the New York intellectual crowd from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s.
    Ex. For all their bellicose rhetoric, they still hope that diplomatic pressure will persuade Iran to compromise.
    Ex. Senior staff members said that these fevers of truculent behavior had manifested themselves only within the past two or three years.
    ----
    * partes beligerantes = warring parties.
    * * *
    adjetivo belligerent
    * * *
    = belligerent, scrappy, bellicose, truculent.

    Ex: Dexter Rundle thought: 'The day was progressing serenely and I was feeling not at all belligerent' = Dexter Rundle pensó: "El día iba progresando con serenidad y no me sentía de ninguna manera agresivo".

    Ex: His book is a one-sided insider account of the scrappy, often combative style that characterized the New York intellectual crowd from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s.
    Ex: For all their bellicose rhetoric, they still hope that diplomatic pressure will persuade Iran to compromise.
    Ex: Senior staff members said that these fevers of truculent behavior had manifested themselves only within the past two or three years.
    * partes beligerantes = warring parties.

    * * *
    belligerent
    los países beligerantes the belligerent nations, the nations at war
    * * *

    beligerante adjetivo
    belligerent;
    ◊ los países beligerantes the belligerent o warring nations

    beligerante adjetivo belligerent
    los países beligerantes, the warring nations

    ' beligerante' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    posición
    English:
    belligerent
    - contentious
    - pugnacious
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    belligerent
    ♦ nmf
    belligerent
    * * *
    adj nación, pueblo etc belligerent
    * * *
    beligerante adj & nmf
    : belligerent

    Spanish-English dictionary > beligerante

  • 9 belígero

    adj.
    bellicose.
    * * *
    Ex. For all their bellicose rhetoric, they still hope that diplomatic pressure will persuade Iran to compromise.
    * * *

    Ex: For all their bellicose rhetoric, they still hope that diplomatic pressure will persuade Iran to compromise.

    Spanish-English dictionary > belígero

  • 10 bullanguero

    adj.
    riotous, uproarious, rowdy, noisy.
    m.
    noisy person, rowdy.
    * * *
    1 (alborotador) noisy, rowdy
    2 (juerguista) fun-loving
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    2 (juerguista) fun-lover
    * * *
    bullanguero, -a
    1.
    ADJ riotous, rowdy
    2. SM / F
    1) (=persona ruidosa) noisy person
    2) (=alborotador) troublemaker
    * * *
    - ra adjetivo (fam) < persona> fun-loving; <música/ambiente> lively
    * * *
    = rumbustious, boisterous.
    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. These comedies, especially the seven he created in his glory years, lurch breathlessly in every direction, simultaneously sophisticated and boisterous, urbane and philistine.
    * * *
    - ra adjetivo (fam) < persona> fun-loving; <música/ambiente> lively
    * * *
    = rumbustious, boisterous.

    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: These comedies, especially the seven he created in his glory years, lurch breathlessly in every direction, simultaneously sophisticated and boisterous, urbane and philistine.

    * * *
    ( fam); ‹persona› fun-loving; ‹música/ambiente› lively
    * * *

    bullanguero
    ◊ -ra adjetivo (fam) ‹ persona› fun-loving;


    ‹música/ambiente› lively
    * * *
    bullanguero, -a
    ♦ adj
    ser muy bullanguero to love a good time, to love partying
    ♦ nm,f
    es un bullanguero he loves a good time o loves partying
    * * *
    fam
    I adj rowdy
    II m, bullanguera f troublemaker

    Spanish-English dictionary > bullanguero

  • 11 bullicioso

    adj.
    1 noisy, bustling, boisterous, riotous.
    2 lively, riproaring.
    * * *
    1 (ruidoso) noisy
    2 (animado) lively; (con ajetreo) busy
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=ruidoso) [lugar] noisy; [niño] boisterous
    2) (=con actividad) busy, bustling
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo <calle/barrio> busy, noisy; < niño> boisterous
    * * *
    = lively [livelier -comp., liveliest -sup.], hard-driving, roaring, bustling, boisterous, abuzz, rumbustious, hurly-burly.
    Ex. But in the country the processes of printing always provoke such lively curiosity that the customers preferred to go in by a glazed door set in the shop-front and giving onto the street.
    Ex. Dexter Basil Rundle is a vice-president of the Garrett National Bank in Garrett, a practical, progressive, hard-driving city of 122,680 in the Midwest.
    Ex. Today, with its population of almost 80,000, Wexler bears little resemblance to the roaring lumber center it became in the middle decades of the nineteenth century.
    Ex. The article 'A bustling New York ALA show' describes the vendor exhibits at the American Library Association Annual Conference in New York.
    Ex. These comedies, especially the seven he created in his glory years, lurch breathlessly in every direction, simultaneously sophisticated and boisterous, urbane and philistine.
    Ex. She is keeping New York abuzz by shrouding the launch of 'Talk,' her new magazine, in mystery.
    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. Its principles of living close to the natural world and striving for balance in all that we do provide an antidote to our hurly-burly existence.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo <calle/barrio> busy, noisy; < niño> boisterous
    * * *
    = lively [livelier -comp., liveliest -sup.], hard-driving, roaring, bustling, boisterous, abuzz, rumbustious, hurly-burly.

    Ex: But in the country the processes of printing always provoke such lively curiosity that the customers preferred to go in by a glazed door set in the shop-front and giving onto the street.

    Ex: Dexter Basil Rundle is a vice-president of the Garrett National Bank in Garrett, a practical, progressive, hard-driving city of 122,680 in the Midwest.
    Ex: Today, with its population of almost 80,000, Wexler bears little resemblance to the roaring lumber center it became in the middle decades of the nineteenth century.
    Ex: The article 'A bustling New York ALA show' describes the vendor exhibits at the American Library Association Annual Conference in New York.
    Ex: These comedies, especially the seven he created in his glory years, lurch breathlessly in every direction, simultaneously sophisticated and boisterous, urbane and philistine.
    Ex: She is keeping New York abuzz by shrouding the launch of 'Talk,' her new magazine, in mystery.
    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: Its principles of living close to the natural world and striving for balance in all that we do provide an antidote to our hurly-burly existence.

    * * *
    ‹calle/barrio› busy, noisy; ‹niño› boisterous
    * * *

    bullicioso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo

    noisy

    ' bullicioso' also found in these entries:
    English:
    boisterous
    - bustling
    - noisy
    - riotous
    - rip-roaring
    * * *
    bullicioso, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [agitado] [reunión, multitud] noisy;
    [calle, mercado] busy, bustling
    2. [inquieto] rowdy, boisterous
    ♦ nm,f
    boisterous person
    * * *
    adj bustling
    * * *
    bullicioso, -sa adj
    : noisy, busy, turbulent

    Spanish-English dictionary > bullicioso

  • 12 bélico

    adj.
    warlike, bellicose.
    * * *
    1 military
    \
    conflicto bélico armed conflict, war
    material bélico military equipment
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [actitud] warlike
    2) [material, juguete] war antes de s
    * * *
    - ca adjetivo military
    * * *
    Ex. For all their bellicose rhetoric, they still hope that diplomatic pressure will persuade Iran to compromise.
    ----
    * escalada bélica = escalation of war.
    * maquinaria bélica = war machine.
    * novela bélica = war story.
    * zona bélica = war zone.
    * * *
    - ca adjetivo military
    * * *

    Ex: For all their bellicose rhetoric, they still hope that diplomatic pressure will persuade Iran to compromise.

    * escalada bélica = escalation of war.
    * maquinaria bélica = war machine.
    * novela bélica = war story.
    * zona bélica = war zone.

    * * *
    bélico -ca
    ‹conflicto/material› military
    preparativos bélicos preparations for war
    * * *

    bélico
    ◊ -ca adjetivo ‹conflicto/material› military;

    preparativos bélicos preparations for war
    bélico,-a adj (antes de sustantivo) war
    conflicto bélico, war
    material bélico, armaments pl; película bélica, war film
    preparativos bélicos, preparations for war

    ' bélico' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bélica
    - enfrentamiento
    * * *
    bélico, -a adj
    conflicto bélico military conflict;
    esfuerzo bélico war effort;
    espiral bélica spiral towards war
    * * *
    adj war atr
    * * *
    bélico, -ca adj
    guerrero: war, fighting
    esfuerzos bélicos: war efforts

    Spanish-English dictionary > bélico

  • 13 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

  • 14 dejar en la cuneta

    (v.) = ditch
    Ex. It is time that higher education institutions accepted the wisdom of collaboration and ditched, once and for all, the rhetoric of competition = Ya es hora de que las instituciones de enseñanza superior acepten la colaboración y rechacen, de una vez por todas, la competitividad.
    * * *
    (v.) = ditch

    Ex: It is time that higher education institutions accepted the wisdom of collaboration and ditched, once and for all, the rhetoric of competition = Ya es hora de que las instituciones de enseñanza superior acepten la colaboración y rechacen, de una vez por todas, la competitividad.

    Spanish-English dictionary > dejar en la cuneta

  • 15 dentro del seno de

    Ex. His political rhetoric on religion, finance, and peace allowed working men to be brought within the pale of the constitution.
    * * *

    Ex: His political rhetoric on religion, finance, and peace allowed working men to be brought within the pale of the constitution.

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  • 16 desechar

    v.
    1 to throw out, to discard.
    Ella desechó los zapatos She discarded the shoes.
    2 to refuse, to turn down (rechazar) (ayuda, oferta).
    3 to ignore, to take no notice of.
    4 to dismiss, to refuse, to drop, to drop off.
    Elsa desechó la idea Elsa dismissed the idea.
    5 to nonsuit.
    * * *
    1 (tirar) to discard, throw out, throw away
    2 (rechazar) to refuse, reject; (proyecto, idea) to drop, discard
    3 (apartar de sí) to put aside, cast aside
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    VT
    1) (=tirar) [+ basura] to throw out; [+ objeto inútil] to scrap, get rid of
    2) (=rechazar) [+ consejo, miedo] to cast aside; [+ oferta] to reject; [+ plan] to drop
    3) (=censurar) to censure, reprove
    4) [+ llave] to turn
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) <ayuda/idea/propuesta> to reject

    desechó la idea de ir — he abandoned o gave up the idea of going

    b) <restos/residuos> to throw away o out; < ropa> to throw out
    * * *
    = discard, dismiss, short-circuit [shortcircuit], throw out, set + aside, discount, scrap, toss out, ditch, dismiss with + the wave of the hand, turf out, count + Nombre + out.
    Ex. The dates should be checked regularly and updated so that old dates are discarded and new ones entered.
    Ex. It is too early to dismiss those physical forms associated with non-computerised cataloguing and indexing.
    Ex. There is little modulation, whole steps of division being short-circuited and an odd assembly of terms being frequently found: e.g.: LAW see also JURY, JUDGES.
    Ex. Well, I happened to inherit a full set of Trollope, and I had the guts to throw it out.
    Ex. Such championship cannot be lightly set aside, nevertheless it is now quiet certain that 'bibliography', incorrect and unfortunate as it may be, is here to stay and the situation must be accepted.
    Ex. Assistance from part-time librarians should not be totally discounted, however.
    Ex. There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.
    Ex. In preparation for computerization, let us not toss out old standards that were good.
    Ex. It is time that higher education institutions accepted the wisdom of collaboration and ditched, once and for all, the rhetoric of competition = Ya es hora de que las instituciones de enseñanza superior acepten la colaboración y rechacen, de una vez por todas, la competitividad.
    Ex. International 'rules' are often dismissed with the wave of the hand or a snort of contempt one week, and gilded and placed on a pedestal the next.
    Ex. You will be disliked and turfed out as a sacrificial goat once your job is done but there will be many others queuing up for your services.
    Ex. Right now, there is no clear Republican candidate, though the inimitable Joe Kelly can never be counted out until the deadline passes.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) <ayuda/idea/propuesta> to reject

    desechó la idea de ir — he abandoned o gave up the idea of going

    b) <restos/residuos> to throw away o out; < ropa> to throw out
    * * *
    = discard, dismiss, short-circuit [shortcircuit], throw out, set + aside, discount, scrap, toss out, ditch, dismiss with + the wave of the hand, turf out, count + Nombre + out.

    Ex: The dates should be checked regularly and updated so that old dates are discarded and new ones entered.

    Ex: It is too early to dismiss those physical forms associated with non-computerised cataloguing and indexing.
    Ex: There is little modulation, whole steps of division being short-circuited and an odd assembly of terms being frequently found: e.g.: LAW see also JURY, JUDGES.
    Ex: Well, I happened to inherit a full set of Trollope, and I had the guts to throw it out.
    Ex: Such championship cannot be lightly set aside, nevertheless it is now quiet certain that 'bibliography', incorrect and unfortunate as it may be, is here to stay and the situation must be accepted.
    Ex: Assistance from part-time librarians should not be totally discounted, however.
    Ex: There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.
    Ex: In preparation for computerization, let us not toss out old standards that were good.
    Ex: It is time that higher education institutions accepted the wisdom of collaboration and ditched, once and for all, the rhetoric of competition = Ya es hora de que las instituciones de enseñanza superior acepten la colaboración y rechacen, de una vez por todas, la competitividad.
    Ex: International 'rules' are often dismissed with the wave of the hand or a snort of contempt one week, and gilded and placed on a pedestal the next.
    Ex: You will be disliked and turfed out as a sacrificial goat once your job is done but there will be many others queuing up for your services.
    Ex: Right now, there is no clear Republican candidate, though the inimitable Joe Kelly can never be counted out until the deadline passes.

    * * *
    desechar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ‹ayuda/consejo/propuesta› to reject
    debes desechar esos malos pensamientos you must banish those wicked thoughts from your mind
    no desechó nunca la sospecha de que fuera él she never managed to rid herself of the suspicion that it was him
    después de un mes desechó la idea de quedarse after a month he gave up o abandoned the idea of staying there
    desecharon la idea de pedir un préstamo they rejected the idea of asking for a loan
    2 ‹restos/residuos› to throw away o out; ‹ropa› to throw out
    * * *

     

    desechar ( conjugate desechar) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹ayuda/propuesta› to reject;

    ‹idea/plan› ( rechazar) to reject;
    ( renunciar a) to drop, give up
    b) ‹restos/residuos› to throw away o out;

    ‹ ropa› to throw out
    desechar verbo transitivo
    1 (un objeto) to discard, throw out o away
    2 (una oferta) to turn down, refuse
    (descartar una idea, un proyecto) to drop, discard
    ' desechar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    tirar
    English:
    cast aside
    - shrift
    - discard
    - dismiss
    - ditch
    - scrap
    - sweep
    * * *
    1. [tirar] to throw out, to discard
    2. [rechazar] [ayuda, oferta] to refuse, to turn down;
    [idea, pensamiento] to reject; [posibilidad, sospecha] to dismiss; [propuesta, sugerencia] to reject, to turn down;
    pensó ir a pie, pero luego desechó la idea he thought of going on foot but then dropped the idea;
    no desecho la posibilidad de que haya sido ella I don't rule out the possibility that it was her
    * * *
    v/t
    1 ( tirar) throw away
    2 ( rechazar) reject
    * * *
    1) : to discard, to throw away
    2) rechazar: to reject

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  • 17 despiadado

    adj.
    merciless, cruel, inhuman, cold-hearted.
    * * *
    1 ruthless, merciless
    * * *
    (f. - despiadada)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ [persona] heartless; [ataque] merciless
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < persona> ruthless, heartless; <ataque/crítica> savage, merciless
    * * *
    = hard-hearted, relentless, savage, ruthless, remorseless, implacable, inexorable, cold-blooded, ferocius, unsparing, merciless, soulless, ferocious, heartless, cutthroat, unforgiving.
    Ex. For her refusal, Isabella has received a great deal of blame from subsequent critics, who call her a hard-hearted prude.
    Ex. They need to be relentless in their fight for adequate funding so that the library service and the profession are not jeopardised.
    Ex. The most vulnerable nations are Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, which have all experienced savage war and civil unrest in recent years.
    Ex. The ruling also coincided with a flood of mergers and acquisitions that transformed gentlemen publishers into ruthless entrepreneurs.
    Ex. The population explosion and the remorseless growth of knowledge are discussed.
    Ex. The implacable reduction in the dissemination of public documents constitutes a rebarbative policy that threatens the quality of reference services in libraries.
    Ex. The inexorable tide of automation seems to be threatening the existence of old-fashioned, handwritten copymarking.
    Ex. He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.
    Ex. Fuller's novel make for a form of intellectual clarity, even if that clarity, paradoxically, is expressed in a ferocious hell-bent manner.
    Ex. The book is so ferociously unsparing in detailing the systematic torment as well as wanton cruelty that the reconstruction of the past is often unbearable.
    Ex. The author discusses art critic Harry Quilter, usually remembered today as 'Arry,' the butt of merciless lampooning by J.M. Whistler.
    Ex. Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    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.
    Ex. Unlike other Swedish illustrators, he used the time consuming and unforgiving technique of wood engraving for his illustrations.
    ----
    * actuar de un modo despiadado = play + hardball.
    * ser despiadado = play + hardball.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < persona> ruthless, heartless; <ataque/crítica> savage, merciless
    * * *
    = hard-hearted, relentless, savage, ruthless, remorseless, implacable, inexorable, cold-blooded, ferocius, unsparing, merciless, soulless, ferocious, heartless, cutthroat, unforgiving.

    Ex: For her refusal, Isabella has received a great deal of blame from subsequent critics, who call her a hard-hearted prude.

    Ex: They need to be relentless in their fight for adequate funding so that the library service and the profession are not jeopardised.
    Ex: The most vulnerable nations are Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, which have all experienced savage war and civil unrest in recent years.
    Ex: The ruling also coincided with a flood of mergers and acquisitions that transformed gentlemen publishers into ruthless entrepreneurs.
    Ex: The population explosion and the remorseless growth of knowledge are discussed.
    Ex: The implacable reduction in the dissemination of public documents constitutes a rebarbative policy that threatens the quality of reference services in libraries.
    Ex: The inexorable tide of automation seems to be threatening the existence of old-fashioned, handwritten copymarking.
    Ex: He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.
    Ex: Fuller's novel make for a form of intellectual clarity, even if that clarity, paradoxically, is expressed in a ferocious hell-bent manner.
    Ex: The book is so ferociously unsparing in detailing the systematic torment as well as wanton cruelty that the reconstruction of the past is often unbearable.
    Ex: The author discusses art critic Harry Quilter, usually remembered today as 'Arry,' the butt of merciless lampooning by J.M. Whistler.
    Ex: Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    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.
    Ex: Unlike other Swedish illustrators, he used the time consuming and unforgiving technique of wood engraving for his illustrations.
    * actuar de un modo despiadado = play + hardball.
    * ser despiadado = play + hardball.

    * * *
    ‹persona› ruthless, heartless; ‹ataque/crítica› savage, merciless
    * * *

    despiadado
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹ persona› ruthless, heartless;


    ‹ataque/crítica› savage, merciless
    despiadado,-a adjetivo merciless, ruthless
    ' despiadado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acerba
    - acerbo
    - bárbara
    - bárbaro
    - despiadada
    English:
    cold-blooded
    - cold-hearted
    - cutthroat
    - merciless
    - pitiless
    - remorseless
    - ruthless
    - unmerciful
    - vicious
    - cold
    * * *
    despiadado, -a adj
    [persona] merciless; [trato] inhuman, pitiless; [ataque] savage, merciless
    * * *
    adj ruthless
    * * *
    despiadado, -da adj
    cruel: cruel, merciless, pitiless
    * * *
    despiadado adj hard-hearted / heartless / ruthless

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  • 18 destrozar

    v.
    2 to shatter, to devastate (emocionalmente) (person).
    3 to tear apart, to destroy, to shatter, to break down into pieces.
    Eso rompe huesos That breaks bones.
    * * *
    1 (romper) to destroy, shatter, wreck; (despedazar) to tear to pieces, tear to shreds
    2 figurado (gastar) to wear out
    3 figurado (estropear) to ruin, spoil; (corazón) to break
    4 figurado (causar daño moral) to crush, shatter, devastate
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=romper) [+ cristal, cerámica] to smash; [+ edificio] to destroy; [+ ropa, zapatos] to ruin; [+ nervios] to shatter
    2) (=dejar abatido a) [+ persona] to shatter; [+ corazón] to break; [+ ejército, enemigo] to crush
    3) (=arruinar) [+ persona, vida] to ruin
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) (romper, deteriorar) to break
    b) <felicidad/armonía> to destroy, shatter; < corazón> to break; < matrimonio> to ruin, destroy

    su muerte la destrozó — she was devastated o shattered by his death

    2.
    destrozarse v pron (refl)
    a) ( romperse)
    b) <estómago/hígado> to ruin
    * * *
    = shatter, batter, vandalise [vandalize, -USA], wreak + devastation, smash, pull apart, ravage, go out + the window, tear + apart, mangle, dismember, shred, slaughter, blow away, wreck, rip through, pull + Nombre + to bits, wipe + the floor with, rubbish, blight, chew up.
    Ex. Her feeling of well-being was soon rudely shattered.
    Ex. But the early cylinder machines worked less accurately than the platens, tending to slur the impression and batter the type.
    Ex. This article argues in favour of the term 'conservator' rather than 'restorer' of books as the former does not conjure up a picture of the Victorian artisan vandalising documents with irreversible treatments simply for effect.
    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. The library was badly vandalised and the intruders overturned 10 large bookcases, tore paintings down, emptied catalogues, and smashed intercoms, chairs, tables and windows.
    Ex. If solutions are not found to meet this challenge, users' hunger for multimedia could pull the Internet apart.
    Ex. The rigours of the climate and the effects of war and political unrest have ravaged this country's cultural heritage.
    Ex. The lack of centralisation means that good management goes out the window and everything gets sloppier.
    Ex. He is a stickler for detail and can tear apart a budget or a balance sheet faster than anyone.
    Ex. In places the waters had swept container lorries loaded with goods yards off the road where they now lay twisted and mangled and almost unrecognizable as vehicles.
    Ex. Books can seldom be disbound for the benefit of bibliographers (although it is worth remembering that they sometimes have to be rebound, when they are completely dismembered), but we can now see through printing ink by means of betaradiography.
    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. These small small but very sharp flakes were used by hunters to slaughter animals.
    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. 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. Microscopists think very little about plucking an innocent and unsuspecting insect from the garden, killing it, and pulling it to bits for study under a microscope.
    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. The theory of Scandinavian racial purity cherished by Hitler and the Nazis has been rubbished by new scientific research.
    Ex. The global outbreak of swine flu has spread fear through the travel sector, blighting any green shoots of recovery from the financial crisis.
    Ex. Cattle ranches are chewing up the Amazon rainforest.
    ----
    * destrozar completamente = blow + Nombre + to bits.
    * destrozarse = come + undone, go to + rack and ruin, come apart at + the seams, fall apart at + the seams, go to + ruin.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) (romper, deteriorar) to break
    b) <felicidad/armonía> to destroy, shatter; < corazón> to break; < matrimonio> to ruin, destroy

    su muerte la destrozó — she was devastated o shattered by his death

    2.
    destrozarse v pron (refl)
    a) ( romperse)
    b) <estómago/hígado> to ruin
    * * *
    = shatter, batter, vandalise [vandalize, -USA], wreak + devastation, smash, pull apart, ravage, go out + the window, tear + apart, mangle, dismember, shred, slaughter, blow away, wreck, rip through, pull + Nombre + to bits, wipe + the floor with, rubbish, blight, chew up.

    Ex: Her feeling of well-being was soon rudely shattered.

    Ex: But the early cylinder machines worked less accurately than the platens, tending to slur the impression and batter the type.
    Ex: This article argues in favour of the term 'conservator' rather than 'restorer' of books as the former does not conjure up a picture of the Victorian artisan vandalising documents with irreversible treatments simply for effect.
    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: The library was badly vandalised and the intruders overturned 10 large bookcases, tore paintings down, emptied catalogues, and smashed intercoms, chairs, tables and windows.
    Ex: If solutions are not found to meet this challenge, users' hunger for multimedia could pull the Internet apart.
    Ex: The rigours of the climate and the effects of war and political unrest have ravaged this country's cultural heritage.
    Ex: The lack of centralisation means that good management goes out the window and everything gets sloppier.
    Ex: He is a stickler for detail and can tear apart a budget or a balance sheet faster than anyone.
    Ex: In places the waters had swept container lorries loaded with goods yards off the road where they now lay twisted and mangled and almost unrecognizable as vehicles.
    Ex: Books can seldom be disbound for the benefit of bibliographers (although it is worth remembering that they sometimes have to be rebound, when they are completely dismembered), but we can now see through printing ink by means of betaradiography.
    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: These small small but very sharp flakes were used by hunters to slaughter animals.
    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: 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: Microscopists think very little about plucking an innocent and unsuspecting insect from the garden, killing it, and pulling it to bits for study under a microscope.
    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: The theory of Scandinavian racial purity cherished by Hitler and the Nazis has been rubbished by new scientific research.
    Ex: The global outbreak of swine flu has spread fear through the travel sector, blighting any green shoots of recovery from the financial crisis.
    Ex: Cattle ranches are chewing up the Amazon rainforest.
    * destrozar completamente = blow + Nombre + to bits.
    * destrozarse = come + undone, go to + rack and ruin, come apart at + the seams, fall apart at + the seams, go to + ruin.

    * * *
    destrozar [A4 ]
    vt
    1 (romper, deteriorar) to break
    la bomba destrozó varios edificios the bomb destroyed o wrecked several buildings
    no hagas eso que vas a destrozar los zapatos don't do that, you'll ruin your shoes
    2 ‹felicidad/armonía› to destroy, shatter; ‹corazón› to break; ‹matrimonio› to ruin, destroy
    me está destrozando los nervios she's making me a nervous wreck
    la muerte de su marido la destrozó she was devastated o shattered by her husband's death
    1
    (romperse): se cayó al suelo y se destrozó it fell to the ground and smashed
    se me han destrozado los zapatos my shoes are ruined o have fallen to pieces
    2 ( refl) ‹estómago/hígado› to ruin
    te vas a destrozar los pies usando esos zapatos you're going to ruin o damage your feet wearing those shoes
    * * *

    destrozar ( conjugate destrozar) verbo transitivo
    a) (romper, deteriorar) ‹ zapatos› to ruin;

    ‹cristal/jarrón› to smash;
    ‹ juguete› to pull … apart;
    ‹ coche› to wreck;
    ‹ libro› to pull apart
    b) ‹felicidad/matrimonio/vida› to wreck, destroy;

    ‹ corazón› to break;

    destrozarse verbo pronominal

    [jarrón/cristal] to smash
    b) ‹estómago/hígado› to ruin

    destrozar verbo transitivo
    1 (romper) to tear up, wreck, ruin
    2 (una tela, un papel) to tear to shreds, rip up
    3 (apenar, desgarrar) to shatter, devastate: me destroza verte así, it breaks my heart to see you this way
    4 (los planes, la convivencia, etc) to ruin
    ' destrozar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    break
    - destroy
    - mangle
    - shatter
    - smash
    - smash up
    - tear apart
    - trash
    - vandalize
    - wreck
    - write off
    - get
    - murder
    - piece
    - pull
    - write
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [físicamente] [romper] to smash;
    [estropear] to ruin;
    el terremoto destrozó la ciudad the earthquake destroyed the city;
    vas a destrozar o [m5] destrozarte los zapatos de tanto usarlos you'll ruin your shoes, wearing them so much
    2. [emocionalmente] [persona] to shatter, to devastate;
    [matrimonio, relación] to wreck; [pareja] to break up; [vida] to ruin; [corazón] to break;
    el divorcio la ha destrozado she was devastated by the divorce;
    ese ruido le destroza los nervios a cualquiera that noise is enough to drive anyone up the wall;
    destrozó a su oponente en el debate he destroyed his opponent in the debate
    * * *
    v/t
    1 destroy
    2 emocio- nalmente shatter, devastate
    * * *
    destrozar {21} vt
    1) : to smash, to shatter
    2) : to destroy, to wreck
    * * *
    1. (en general) to destroy / to wreck
    2. (hacer trozos) to smash
    destrozarle el corazón a alguien to break somebody's heart [pt. broke; pp. broken]

    Spanish-English dictionary > destrozar

  • 19 discurso

    m.
    1 speech.
    dar o pronunciar un discurso (sobre) to give o deliver a speech (on)
    discurso de agradecimiento speech of thanks
    discurso de clausura closing speech
    me soltó uno de sus discursos she gave me one of her lectures
    3 discourse, ideology (ideario).
    4 discourse (linguistics).
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: discursar.
    * * *
    1 (conferencia) speech, lecture, discourse
    2 (razonamiento) reasoning
    3 (escrito, tratado) discourse, dissertation
    5 (del tiempo) passing, passage
    * * *
    noun m.
    2) speech, address
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=alocución) speech

    pronunciar un discurso — to make a speech, give a speech

    2) (=forma de hablar) rhetoric
    3) (=habla) speech, faculty of speech
    4) [del tiempo]
    * * *
    a) ( alocución) speech

    pronunciar un discurso — to give o make a speech

    me soltó un discurso — (fam) he gave me a real lecture

    b) ( retórica) discourse
    c) (Ling) speech, discourse (tech)
    d) (liter) ( del tiempo) passing, passage (frml or liter)
    * * *
    = speech, address, discourse, oration, line of discussion, rant, speaking commitment.
    Ex. For the sake of editorial continuity, those speeches which were given at both locations (for example, Mr. Gorman's presentation) are only printed here once.
    Ex. The title of his address is 'How many drops to fill the bucket?'.
    Ex. In many discourses 'policy making' and 'decision making' are synonymous terms.
    Ex. The cataloger with principles would never have placed some of it under Oration and some of it under American Scholar.
    Ex. The second line of discussion concentrates on a social perspective cognition and the role of language as a mental instrument.
    Ex. Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex. Emerson already has a schedule full of speaking commitments.
    ----
    * análisis del discurso = discourse analysis.
    * discurso científico = scholarly communication, scholarly discourse.
    * discurso de apertura = keynote address, opening address, opening speech, keynote presentation.
    * discurso de bienvenida = welcoming address, welcoming speech, welcome address, salutatory oration.
    * discurso de clausura = closing speech, closing address.
    * discurso de despedida = farewell address.
    * discurso de fin de curso = commencement salutatory.
    * discurso de graduación = commencement address.
    * discurso de la sesión plenaria = plenary address.
    * discurso inaugural = keynote address, inaugural address, inaugural speech, keynote presentation.
    * discurso político = political discourse, political speech, spin.
    * discurso presidencial = presidential address.
    * discurso público = public speech.
    * discurso religioso = religious discourse.
    * escritor de discursos a sueldo = speechwriter.
    * notas de discurso = speaking notes.
    * pronunciar un discurso = deliver + oration, deliver + speech, give + speech.
    * * *
    a) ( alocución) speech

    pronunciar un discurso — to give o make a speech

    me soltó un discurso — (fam) he gave me a real lecture

    b) ( retórica) discourse
    c) (Ling) speech, discourse (tech)
    d) (liter) ( del tiempo) passing, passage (frml or liter)
    * * *
    = speech, address, discourse, oration, line of discussion, rant, speaking commitment.

    Ex: For the sake of editorial continuity, those speeches which were given at both locations (for example, Mr. Gorman's presentation) are only printed here once.

    Ex: The title of his address is 'How many drops to fill the bucket?'.
    Ex: In many discourses 'policy making' and 'decision making' are synonymous terms.
    Ex: The cataloger with principles would never have placed some of it under Oration and some of it under American Scholar.
    Ex: The second line of discussion concentrates on a social perspective cognition and the role of language as a mental instrument.
    Ex: Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex: Emerson already has a schedule full of speaking commitments.
    * análisis del discurso = discourse analysis.
    * discurso científico = scholarly communication, scholarly discourse.
    * discurso de apertura = keynote address, opening address, opening speech, keynote presentation.
    * discurso de bienvenida = welcoming address, welcoming speech, welcome address, salutatory oration.
    * discurso de clausura = closing speech, closing address.
    * discurso de despedida = farewell address.
    * discurso de fin de curso = commencement salutatory.
    * discurso de graduación = commencement address.
    * discurso de la sesión plenaria = plenary address.
    * discurso inaugural = keynote address, inaugural address, inaugural speech, keynote presentation.
    * discurso político = political discourse, political speech, spin.
    * discurso presidencial = presidential address.
    * discurso público = public speech.
    * discurso religioso = religious discourse.
    * escritor de discursos a sueldo = speechwriter.
    * notas de discurso = speaking notes.
    * pronunciar un discurso = deliver + oration, deliver + speech, give + speech.

    * * *
    1 (alocución) speech
    pronunciar un discurso to give o make o deliver a speech
    discurso de apertura/clausura/presentación opening/closing/introductory speech
    no te puedes imaginar el discurso que me soltó ( fam); you should've heard the lecture he gave me o I got ( colloq)
    discurso del/sobre el estado de la Unión State of the Union Message/Address
    2 (retórica) discourse
    3 ( Ling) speech, discourse ( tech)
    análisis del discurso discourse analysis
    4 ( liter) (del tiempo) passing, passage ( frmlor liter)
    Compuesto:
    discurso directo/indirecto
    direct/indirect speech
    * * *

     

    discurso sustantivo masculino
    speech;
    ◊ pronunciar un discurso to give o make a speech

    discurso sustantivo masculino
    1 (exposición oral) speech
    dar o pronunciar un discurso, to make a speech
    2 (conjunto de ideas) discourse
    discurso interesante, interesting discourse
    3 (espacio de tiempo) course, passing: en el discurso de tres horas..., over the course of three hours...

    ' discurso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abrir
    - acentuar
    - aglomerar
    - de
    - efecto
    - exaltación
    - exponer
    - fluida
    - fluido
    - improvisada
    - improvisado
    - inconexa
    - inconexo
    - inflamar
    - lema
    - matizar
    - modestamente
    - monótona
    - monótono
    - palabra
    - parrafada
    - preámbulo
    - pronunciar
    - reanudar
    - recoveco
    - rellena
    - relleno
    - réplica
    - reticente
    - revolver
    - soltura
    - trabazón
    - tralla
    - adornar
    - alargar
    - amenizar
    - apasionado
    - apropiado
    - bienvenida
    - brevedad
    - brillo
    - cita
    - clausura
    - clausurar
    - coherente
    - dar
    - difamatorio
    - echar
    - electoral
    - emotivo
    English:
    address
    - articulate
    - backlash
    - before
    - condense
    - discourse
    - drag out
    - draw out
    - eloquent
    - emotional
    - fiery
    - fluent
    - fluster
    - go over
    - high-powered
    - inflame
    - inspirational
    - intense
    - interpret
    - lengthy
    - make
    - nationalist
    - oration
    - outline
    - pad out
    - pompous
    - preface
    - prevail
    - rambling
    - rattle through
    - rousing
    - speak
    - speech
    - spirited
    - tone
    - unprepared
    - well
    - would
    - cuff
    - through
    * * *
    1. [exposición oral] speech;
    dar o [m5] pronunciar un discurso (sobre) to give o deliver a speech (on);
    discurso de apertura/clausura opening/closing speech;
    discurso de bienvenida/despedida welcome/farewell speech;
    discurso de agradecimiento speech of thanks
    2. Pey [sermón] lecture;
    me soltó uno de sus discursos she gave me one of her lectures
    3. [manera de expresarse]
    se dirigió a nosotros con su lento discurso he addressed us in his unhurried manner
    4. [ideario] discourse, ideology;
    la oposición se ha quedado sin discurso the opposition now has nothing to offer;
    el partido en el gobierno le ha robado el discurso a la oposición the government has stolen the opposition's clothes
    5. [transcurso]
    el discurso del tiempo the passage of time;
    con el discurso de los años with the passing years
    6. Ling discourse
    * * *
    m
    1 speech
    2 de tiempo passage, passing
    * * *
    1) oración: speech, address
    2) : discourse, treatise
    * * *
    discurso n speech [pl. speeches]

    Spanish-English dictionary > discurso

  • 20 escandaloso

    adj.
    1 very noisy, noisy, strepitous, too noisy.
    2 outrageous, outraging, offensive, disgraceful.
    3 shocking, scandalous.
    * * *
    1 scandalous, shocking, outrageous
    2 (alborotado) noisy, rowdy
    3 (color) loud; (risa) uproarious
    * * *
    (f. - escandalosa)
    adj.
    1) shocking, scandalous
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=sorprendente) [actuación] scandalous, shocking; [delito] flagrant; [vida] scandalous
    2) (=ruidoso) [risa] hearty, uproarious; [niño] noisy
    3) [color] loud
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    a) < conducta> shocking, scandalous; < ropa> outrageous; < película> shocking; < vida> scandalous; < color> loud
    b) ( ruidoso) <persona/griterío> noisy; < risa> loud, uproarious
    * * *
    = scandalous, monstrous, boisterous, shocking, raucous, a monster of a, rumbustious, juicy [juicier -comp., juiciest -sup.], loudmouth.
    Ex. The article ' SCANdalous behaviour' examines the possible uses of hand-held OCR scanners as a means of converting graphics (illustrations etc) into machine readable form.
    Ex. Bogardus privately resolved that nothing would induce her to assent to this monstrous possibility.
    Ex. These comedies, especially the seven he created in his glory years, lurch breathlessly in every direction, simultaneously sophisticated and boisterous, urbane and philistine.
    Ex. The author mentions several recent shocking revelations concerning the activities of the Japanese government and its officials.
    Ex. This is an important point which has been poorly neglected in this lively and, at times, raucous debate.
    Ex. Hurricane Rita became a monster of a storm as it gathered strength over the Gulf of Mexico.
    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. The book 'If Looks Could Kill' is a juicy, tell-all, insider's look at the true world of fashion.
    Ex. In that respect, if, in fact, some people may think of her as a ' loudmouth' or 'showboat' or 'jerk,' it could be good for women's soccer.
    ----
    * de forma escandalosa = outrageously.
    * de manera escandalosa = outrageously.
    * muy escandaloso = highly visible.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    a) < conducta> shocking, scandalous; < ropa> outrageous; < película> shocking; < vida> scandalous; < color> loud
    b) ( ruidoso) <persona/griterío> noisy; < risa> loud, uproarious
    * * *
    = scandalous, monstrous, boisterous, shocking, raucous, a monster of a, rumbustious, juicy [juicier -comp., juiciest -sup.], loudmouth.

    Ex: The article ' SCANdalous behaviour' examines the possible uses of hand-held OCR scanners as a means of converting graphics (illustrations etc) into machine readable form.

    Ex: Bogardus privately resolved that nothing would induce her to assent to this monstrous possibility.
    Ex: These comedies, especially the seven he created in his glory years, lurch breathlessly in every direction, simultaneously sophisticated and boisterous, urbane and philistine.
    Ex: The author mentions several recent shocking revelations concerning the activities of the Japanese government and its officials.
    Ex: This is an important point which has been poorly neglected in this lively and, at times, raucous debate.
    Ex: Hurricane Rita became a monster of a storm as it gathered strength over the Gulf of Mexico.
    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: The book 'If Looks Could Kill' is a juicy, tell-all, insider's look at the true world of fashion.
    Ex: In that respect, if, in fact, some people may think of her as a ' loudmouth' or 'showboat' or 'jerk,' it could be good for women's soccer.
    * de forma escandalosa = outrageously.
    * de manera escandalosa = outrageously.
    * muy escandaloso = highly visible.

    * * *
    1 ‹conducta› shocking, scandalous, disgraceful; ‹ropa› outrageous; ‹película› shocking; ‹vida› scandalous; ‹color› loud
    2 (ruidoso) ‹persona› noisy; ‹risa› loud, outrageous; ‹griterío› noisy
    * * *

    escandaloso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo


    ‹ ropa› outrageous;
    ‹ película› shocking;
    ‹ vida› scandalous
    b) ( ruidoso) ‹persona/griterío› noisy;

    ‹ risa› loud, uproarious
    escandaloso,-a adjetivo
    1 (ruidoso) noisy, rowdy
    2 (inmoral) scandalous, shameful
    ' escandaloso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    escandalosa
    - sórdida
    - sórdido
    - gamberrismo
    English:
    disorderly
    - outrageous
    - raucous
    - rowdy
    - scandalous
    - shocking
    * * *
    escandaloso, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [inmoral] outrageous, shocking;
    se vio envuelto en un asunto escandaloso he got caught up in a scandalous business
    2. [ruidoso] very noisy;
    ¡mira que eres escandaloso! what a racket you make!
    ♦ nm,f
    very noisy o loud person;
    son unos escandalosos they're terribly noisy people
    * * *
    adj
    1 ( vergonzoso) scandalous, shocking
    2 ( ruidoso) noisy, rowdy
    * * *
    escandaloso, -sa adj
    1) : shocking, scandalous
    2) ruidoso: noisy, rowdy
    3) : flagrant, outrageous
    * * *
    1. (ruidoso) loud / noisy [comp. noisier; superl. noisiest]
    2. (indignante) scandalous / shocking

    Spanish-English dictionary > escandaloso

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