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  • 1 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

  • 2 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

  • 3 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

  • 4 estridente

    adj.
    1 strident, shrill (ruido).
    2 harsh-sounding, high-pitched, deafening, loud.
    * * *
    1 (ruido) strident, shrill
    2 (color etc) loud, garish, gaudy
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [ruido] strident, raucous
    2) [color] loud
    * * *
    a) <pitido/chirrido> shrill
    b) < voz> ( agudo) shrill; ( fuerte) strident

    su estridente protesta — her strident o vociferous protest

    c) < color> garish, loud
    * * *
    = raucous, garish, lurid, rumbustious.
    Ex. This is an important point which has been poorly neglected in this lively and, at times, raucous debate.
    Ex. Some of the streets transform at night with garish neon lights and red lanterns signifying houses of pleasure.
    Ex. When she discovered vintage comics and their lurid covers, she went nuts.
    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.
    * * *
    a) <pitido/chirrido> shrill
    b) < voz> ( agudo) shrill; ( fuerte) strident

    su estridente protesta — her strident o vociferous protest

    c) < color> garish, loud
    * * *
    = raucous, garish, lurid, rumbustious.

    Ex: This is an important point which has been poorly neglected in this lively and, at times, raucous debate.

    Ex: Some of the streets transform at night with garish neon lights and red lanterns signifying houses of pleasure.
    Ex: When she discovered vintage comics and their lurid covers, she went nuts.
    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.

    * * *
    1 ‹pitido/chirrido› shrill, loud and high-pitched
    2 ‹voz› (agudo) shrill, loud and high-pitched; (fuerte) strident
    su estridente protesta tuvo mala acogida her strident o vociferous protest did not go down well
    3 ‹color› lurid, garish, loud
    un rosa estridente a shocking pink
    * * *

    estridente adjetivo
    a) ‹pitido/chirrido› shrill

    b) ‹ voz› ( agudo) shrill;

    ( fuerte) strident
    c) ‹ color› garish, loud

    estridente adjetivo strident
    ' estridente' also found in these entries:
    English:
    high-pitched
    - raucous
    - shrill
    - strident
    - garish
    * * *
    1. [ruido, risa, voz] strident, shrill
    2. [color] garish, loud
    3. [persona, comportamiento, quejas] loud
    * * *
    adj shrill, strident
    * * *
    : strident, shrill, loud

    Spanish-English dictionary > estridente

  • 5 ruidoso

    adj.
    1 noisy, loud, braying, clattering.
    2 noisy, riotous, roaring, obstreperous.
    3 noisy.
    4 much talked-about.
    * * *
    1 noisy, loud
    2 figurado sensational
    * * *
    (f. - ruidosa)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=estrepitoso) noisy
    2) [noticia] sensational
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo <calle/máquina/persona> noisy; <caso/proceso> much talked-about
    * * *
    = loud [louder -comp., loudest -sup.], noisy [noisier -comp., noisiest -sup.], rumbling, roaring, vociferous, rumbustious.
    Ex. Visitors would be surprised by the loud creaking and groaning of the presses as the timbers gave and rubbed against each other.
    Ex. The factory worker compensates for his noisy and dirty work environment by digging his allotment.
    Ex. Gerould College, a co-educational undergraduate institution, is located on the outskirts of a peaceful, hideaway village in the Northeast, far from the rumbling tempo of industrialism.
    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 reaction came in 1978 -- a vociferous social demand for reading and learning, including a new interest in librarianship.
    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.
    ----
    * sorbo ruidoso = slurp.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo <calle/máquina/persona> noisy; <caso/proceso> much talked-about
    * * *
    = loud [louder -comp., loudest -sup.], noisy [noisier -comp., noisiest -sup.], rumbling, roaring, vociferous, rumbustious.

    Ex: Visitors would be surprised by the loud creaking and groaning of the presses as the timbers gave and rubbed against each other.

    Ex: The factory worker compensates for his noisy and dirty work environment by digging his allotment.
    Ex: Gerould College, a co-educational undergraduate institution, is located on the outskirts of a peaceful, hideaway village in the Northeast, far from the rumbling tempo of industrialism.
    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 reaction came in 1978 -- a vociferous social demand for reading and learning, including a new interest in librarianship.
    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.
    * sorbo ruidoso = slurp.

    * * *
    ruidoso -sa
    1 ‹calle/máquina/persona› noisy
    2 ‹caso/proceso› much talked-about
    * * *

    ruidoso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo ‹calle/máquina/persona› noisy

    ruidoso,-a adjetivo
    1 noisy, loud
    2 fam (una noticia, etc) sensational, much talked about/of

    ' ruidoso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    escandalosa
    - escandaloso
    - ruidosa
    - alborotado
    - gallinero
    - infierno
    English:
    loud
    - noisy
    - raucous
    - rowdy
    - understatement
    - vocal
    * * *
    ruidoso, -a adj
    1. [que hace ruido] noisy
    2. [escandaloso] sensational;
    llevaba una corbata ruidosa he was wearing a very loud tie
    * * *
    adj noisy
    * * *
    ruidoso, -sa adj
    : loud, noisy
    ♦ ruidosamente adv
    * * *
    ruidoso adj noisy [comp. noisier; superl. noisiest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > ruidoso

  • 6 alboroto

    m.
    1 din (ruido).
    2 fuss, to-do (jaleo).
    3 lot of noise, brawl, riot, bustle.
    4 frolic, noise, hullabaloo.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: alborotar.
    * * *
    1 (gritería) din, racket, row
    2 (desorden) uproar, commotion, disturbance
    3 (sobresalto) shock, alarm
    * * *
    noun m.
    2) riot
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=disturbio) disturbance; (=vocerío) racket, row; (=jaleo) uproar; (=motín) riot; (=pelea) brawl
    2) (=susto) scare, alarm
    3) pl alborotos CAm (=rosetas de maíz) popcorn sing
    * * *
    a) (agitación, nerviosismo) agitation; ( excitación) excitement
    b) ( ruido) racket
    c) (disturbio, jaleo) disturbance, commotion; ( motín) riot
    * * *
    = fuss, buzz, hype, the, uproar, hoopla, hue and cry, hubbub, spin, commotion, hilarity, rumpus, racket, fracas, hustle and bustle, hurly-burly, riot.
    Ex. Hernandez decided that if he wished to survive in this restrictive atmosphere his options were clearly the following: don't make waves, do a good job with no fuss of which he could be proud, and try to gain Balzac's respect.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Turf wars in the playback software arena: Microsoft Netshow, Windows Multimedia Player, and all that buzz'.
    Ex. However, given the hype about the networking of public libraries in the US, it is perhaps surprising to note that only 21% have some form of connection to the Internet.
    Ex. The film tells of the uproar the librarian created when he extended an invitation to an advocate of theories on black inferiority to address a high school assembly.
    Ex. Amid the hoopla, she hasn't forgotten its roots.
    Ex. There was no great hue and cry from the coastal community when the two papers appeared in print.
    Ex. And arming himself with patience and piety he tarried awhile until the hubbub was stilled.
    Ex. In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex. She pleaded, futilely, in broken French, until an elderly man, hearing the commotion, came to her rescue.
    Ex. The author combines southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity.
    Ex. Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.
    Ex. He says the library science degree is a racket; that there's nothing taught in library school that can't be better learned on the job.
    Ex. There are, as I see it, approximately three positions one can take on the matter, each with its own adherents in the current fracas.
    Ex. The article ' Hustle and bustle or solemn silence?' argues that changes in society require a re-examination of the library's role.
    Ex. No, the hurly-burly of politics holds no enchantment for me, I in fact have a deep rooted scepticism and I am disillusioned about politics.
    Ex. The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    ----
    * causar un gran alboroto = make + a splash.
    * provocar un gran alboroto = make + a splash.
    * * *
    a) (agitación, nerviosismo) agitation; ( excitación) excitement
    b) ( ruido) racket
    c) (disturbio, jaleo) disturbance, commotion; ( motín) riot
    * * *
    = fuss, buzz, hype, the, uproar, hoopla, hue and cry, hubbub, spin, commotion, hilarity, rumpus, racket, fracas, hustle and bustle, hurly-burly, riot.

    Ex: Hernandez decided that if he wished to survive in this restrictive atmosphere his options were clearly the following: don't make waves, do a good job with no fuss of which he could be proud, and try to gain Balzac's respect.

    Ex: The article is entitled 'Turf wars in the playback software arena: Microsoft Netshow, Windows Multimedia Player, and all that buzz'.
    Ex: However, given the hype about the networking of public libraries in the US, it is perhaps surprising to note that only 21% have some form of connection to the Internet.
    Ex: The film tells of the uproar the librarian created when he extended an invitation to an advocate of theories on black inferiority to address a high school assembly.
    Ex: Amid the hoopla, she hasn't forgotten its roots.
    Ex: There was no great hue and cry from the coastal community when the two papers appeared in print.
    Ex: And arming himself with patience and piety he tarried awhile until the hubbub was stilled.
    Ex: In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.
    Ex: She pleaded, futilely, in broken French, until an elderly man, hearing the commotion, came to her rescue.
    Ex: The author combines southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity.
    Ex: Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.
    Ex: He says the library science degree is a racket; that there's nothing taught in library school that can't be better learned on the job.
    Ex: There are, as I see it, approximately three positions one can take on the matter, each with its own adherents in the current fracas.
    Ex: The article ' Hustle and bustle or solemn silence?' argues that changes in society require a re-examination of the library's role.
    Ex: No, the hurly-burly of politics holds no enchantment for me, I in fact have a deep rooted scepticism and I am disillusioned about politics.
    Ex: The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    * causar un gran alboroto = make + a splash.
    * provocar un gran alboroto = make + a splash.

    * * *
    A
    1 (agitación, nerviosismo) agitation; (excitación) excitement
    2 (ruido) racket
    B
    1 (disturbio, jaleo) disturbance, commotion, ruckus ( AmE colloq)
    2 (motín) riot
    * * *

    Del verbo alborotar: ( conjugate alborotar)

    alboroto es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    alborotó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    alborotar    
    alboroto
    alborotar ( conjugate alborotar) verbo intransitivo
    to make a racket
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( agitar) to agitate, get … agitated;

    ( excitar) to get … excited

    alborotarse verbo pronominal
    a) ( agitarse) to get agitated o upset;

    ( excitarse) to get excited

    alboroto sustantivo masculino
    a) (agitación, nerviosismo) agitation;

    ( excitación) excitement

    c) (disturbio, jaleo) disturbance, commotion;

    ( motín) riot
    alborotar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (causar agitación) to agitate, work up
    2 (revolver, desordenar) to make untidy, turn upside down
    II vi (causar jaleo) to kick up a racket
    alboroto sustantivo masculino
    1 (jaleo) din, racket
    2 (disturbios) disturbance, uproar
    ' alboroto' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alteración
    - armar
    - gresca
    - mogollón
    - organizarse
    - barullo
    - bochinche
    - bronca
    - escándalo
    - jaleo
    - tumulto
    English:
    commotion
    - disturbance
    - excitement
    - fuss
    - hubbub
    - pandemonium
    - rowdy
    - uproar
    - up
    * * *
    ♦ nm
    1. [ruido] din;
    había mucho alboroto en la calle there was a lot of noise in the street
    2. [jaleo] fuss, to-do;
    se armó un gran alboroto there was a huge fuss;
    se produjeron alborotos callejeros there were street disturbances
    ♦ alborotos nmpl
    CAm popcorn
    * * *
    m commotion
    * * *
    1) : disturbance, ruckus
    2) motín: riot
    * * *
    1. (jaleo) racket
    2. (disturbio) disturbance / riot

    Spanish-English dictionary > alboroto

  • 7 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

  • 8 barullo

    m.
    1 din, racket (ruido).
    armar barullo to make a racket
    2 mess (desorden).
    3 turmoil, hurly-burly, hubbub, racket.
    * * *
    1 noise, din, racket
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=alboroto) racket; (=confusión) confusion
    2)

    a barullo — in abundance, in great quantities

    * * *
    1) ( alboroto) racket (colloq), ruckus (AmE)
    2) ( desorden) muddle, mess; ( confusión)

    me armé un barullo — I got all muddled up o (AmE) messed up (colloq)

    * * *
    = hubbub, rumpus, racket, hustle and bustle, hurly-burly.
    Ex. And arming himself with patience and piety he tarried awhile until the hubbub was stilled.
    Ex. Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.
    Ex. He says the library science degree is a racket; that there's nothing taught in library school that can't be better learned on the job.
    Ex. The article ' Hustle and bustle or solemn silence?' argues that changes in society require a re-examination of the library's role.
    Ex. No, the hurly-burly of politics holds no enchantment for me, I in fact have a deep rooted scepticism and I am disillusioned about politics.
    * * *
    1) ( alboroto) racket (colloq), ruckus (AmE)
    2) ( desorden) muddle, mess; ( confusión)

    me armé un barullo — I got all muddled up o (AmE) messed up (colloq)

    * * *
    = hubbub, rumpus, racket, hustle and bustle, hurly-burly.

    Ex: And arming himself with patience and piety he tarried awhile until the hubbub was stilled.

    Ex: Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.
    Ex: He says the library science degree is a racket; that there's nothing taught in library school that can't be better learned on the job.
    Ex: The article ' Hustle and bustle or solemn silence?' argues that changes in society require a re-examination of the library's role.
    Ex: No, the hurly-burly of politics holds no enchantment for me, I in fact have a deep rooted scepticism and I am disillusioned about politics.

    * * *
    A (alboroto) racket ( colloq), ruckus ( AmE)
    estos niños siempre están armando barullo these children are always making a racket o creating a ruckus
    B (desorden) muddle, mess
    (confusión): en el barullo me dejé el bolso in the confusion I left my bag behind
    me armé un barullo I got into a mess o muddle ( colloq), I got all muddled up o ( AmE) messed up ( colloq)
    a barullo ( fam); galore
    en enero hay rebajas a barullo there are loads of sales o sales galore in January ( colloq)
    * * *

    barullo sustantivo masculino ( alboroto) racket (colloq), ruckus (AmE);
    ( desorden) muddle, mess
    barullo m (ruido) row, din
    (lío, embrollo, confusión) confusion
    ' barullo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    belén
    - constante
    - zafarrancho
    - bochinche
    English:
    hubbub
    - din
    - scramble
    * * *
    Fam
    1. [ruido] din, racket;
    el barullo del tráfico no me deja dormir the din of the traffic is keeping me awake;
    armar barullo to make a racket
    2. [desorden] mess;
    hay un barullo de papeles encima de la mesa there are papers all over the desk;
    se armó un barullo con los números he got into a real mess o muddle with the figures;
    con tanta información tengo un barullo en la cabeza my head is in a muddle with so much information
    * * *
    m uproar, racket
    * * *
    bulla: racket, ruckus
    * * *
    1. (ruido) racket / row
    2. (confusión) confusion / muddle

    Spanish-English dictionary > barullo

  • 9 bochinche

    m.
    1 racket (informal). ( Latin American Spanish)
    2 fuss, lot of noise, civil commotion, riot.
    * * *
    1 (conmoción) fuss, uproar; (ruido) racket, din, row
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=jaleo) uproar, commotion
    2) And, Caribe (=chisme) piece of gossip
    3) Méx (=baile) rave-up *; (=fiesta) wild party
    4) Méx (=bar) seedy bar, dive *
    5) Méx (=tienda) local store
    6) Caribe muddle, mess
    * * *
    masculino (esp AmL fam)
    a) (riña, pelea) fight, brawl
    b) (barullo, alboroto) racket (colloq), ruckus (AmE colloq), row (BrE colloq)
    c) (confusión, lío) muddle, mess (colloq)
    * * *
    = rumpus, racket.
    Ex. Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.
    Ex. He says the library science degree is a racket; that there's nothing taught in library school that can't be better learned on the job.
    * * *
    masculino (esp AmL fam)
    a) (riña, pelea) fight, brawl
    b) (barullo, alboroto) racket (colloq), ruckus (AmE colloq), row (BrE colloq)
    c) (confusión, lío) muddle, mess (colloq)
    * * *
    = rumpus, racket.

    Ex: Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.

    Ex: He says the library science degree is a racket; that there's nothing taught in library school that can't be better learned on the job.

    * * *
    A ( AmL fam)
    1 (riña, pelea) fight, brawl
    2 (barullo, alboroto) racket ( colloq), ruckus ( AmE colloq), row ( BrE colloq)
    los vecinos meten mucho bochinche our neighbors make such a row o racket ( colloq)
    tanto bochinche para nada all that fuss about nothing ( colloq)
    3 (confusión, lío) muddle, mess ( colloq)
    B ( Esp) (sorbo) sip
    * * *

    bochinche sustantivo masculino (esp AmL fam)
    a) (riña, pelea) fight, brawl

    b) (barullo, alboroto) racket (colloq), ruckus (AmE colloq), row (BrE colloq)

    c) (confusión, lío) muddle, mess (colloq)

    bochinche sustantivo masculino
    1 rumpus, row, brawl: se armó un bochinche tremendo después de la fiesta, after the party there was a tremendous brawl
    2 LAm rumour: por aquél entonces se escuchaban unos bochinches muy peligrosos, at that time some very dangerous rumours were circulating
    * * *
    Fam
    1. Am [ruido] racket;
    armar bochinche to make a racket
    2. Am [alboroto] fuss;
    hizo mucho bochinche para ir a la fiesta y después no fue she kicked up a real fuss about going to the party and then she didn't go
    3. PRico [chisme] gossip
    4. Méx [fiesta] party
    * * *
    uproar
    * * *
    bochinche nm, fam : ruckus, uproar

    Spanish-English dictionary > bochinche

  • 10 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

  • 11 de una sola persona

    (adj.) = one-man
    Ex. Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.
    * * *
    (adj.) = one-man

    Ex: Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de una sola persona

  • 12 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

    Spanish-English dictionary > despiadado

  • 13 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

  • 14 en solitario

    (adj.) = single-handed, solo, single-handedly, one-man
    Ex. So we see extraordinary hardships cheerfully borne (indeed, apparently enjoyed) by zealous mountaineers, earnest single-handed yachtsmen floating round the world, and all-weather fishing-hobbyists sit patiently at the side of, and sometimes in, rivers, undeterred by the paucity of their catches.
    Ex. The study clearly shows the high prevalence of solo research in the field of bibliometrics.
    Ex. He almost single-handedly created Nigeria's first academic press and, with his wife, its 1st university bookshop.
    Ex. Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.
    * * *
    (adj.) = single-handed, solo, single-handedly, one-man

    Ex: So we see extraordinary hardships cheerfully borne (indeed, apparently enjoyed) by zealous mountaineers, earnest single-handed yachtsmen floating round the world, and all-weather fishing-hobbyists sit patiently at the side of, and sometimes in, rivers, undeterred by the paucity of their catches.

    Ex: The study clearly shows the high prevalence of solo research in the field of bibliometrics.
    Ex: He almost single-handedly created Nigeria's first academic press and, with his wife, its 1st university bookshop.
    Ex: Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.

    Spanish-English dictionary > en solitario

  • 15 escándalo

    m.
    1 scandal, public disturbance, lot of noise, public and noisy disturbance.
    2 scandal, big scene, discreditable action, indecency.
    3 defamatory talk.
    4 noise.
    imperat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) Imperative of Spanish verb: escandir.
    * * *
    1 scandal
    2 (alboroto) racket, fuss, din, uproar
    3 figurado (asombro) astonishment, shock
    \
    armar un escándalo to kick up a fuss
    causar escándalo to cause a scandal
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=tumulto) scandal, outrage

    ¡qué escándalo! — what a scandal!

    ¡es un escándalo! — it's outrageous o shocking!

    precios de escándalo — (=caros) outrageous prices; (=baratos) amazing prices

    un resultado de escándalo — (=malo) a scandalous result; (=bueno) a great result, an outstanding result

    2) (=ruido) row, uproar

    armar un escándalo — to make a scene, cause a row o an uproar

    3) (=asombro) astonishment

    llamar a escándalo — to cause astonishment, be a shock

    * * *
    1) (hecho, asunto chocante) scandal

    qué escándalo! qué manera de vestir! — what a shocking o an outrageous way to dress!

    2) (alboroto, jaleo)

    no armen or hagan tanto escándalo — don't make such a racket o row (colloq)

    * * *
    = fuss, scandal, rumpus, outrage, disgrace, racket.
    Ex. Hernandez decided that if he wished to survive in this restrictive atmosphere his options were clearly the following: don't make waves, do a good job with no fuss of which he could be proud, and try to gain Balzac's respect.
    Ex. The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    Ex. Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.
    Ex. The outrage expressed by users of the Internet brought about the passing an act aimed at ridding the Internet of pornography.
    Ex. Distribution of any publication that tends to expose an individual to public contempt, ridicule, or disgrace is forbidden.
    Ex. He says the library science degree is a racket; that there's nothing taught in library school that can't be better learned on the job.
    ----
    * armar escándalo = make + a ruckus.
    * armar un escándalo = raise + a stink, kick up + a fuss, kick up + a stink, make + a stink (about), make + a racket, make + a row, kick up + a row.
    * de escándalo = outrageous.
    * escándalo político = political scandal.
    * escándalo público = public scandal.
    * escándalos sexuales = sleaze.
    * incitar escándalo = arouse + furor.
    * obras que revelan un escándalo = exposé.
    * persona que desvela escándalos o corrupción = muckraker.
    * revelación de escándalos o corrupción = muckraking.
    * * *
    1) (hecho, asunto chocante) scandal

    qué escándalo! qué manera de vestir! — what a shocking o an outrageous way to dress!

    2) (alboroto, jaleo)

    no armen or hagan tanto escándalo — don't make such a racket o row (colloq)

    * * *
    = fuss, scandal, rumpus, outrage, disgrace, racket.

    Ex: Hernandez decided that if he wished to survive in this restrictive atmosphere his options were clearly the following: don't make waves, do a good job with no fuss of which he could be proud, and try to gain Balzac's respect.

    Ex: The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    Ex: Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.
    Ex: The outrage expressed by users of the Internet brought about the passing an act aimed at ridding the Internet of pornography.
    Ex: Distribution of any publication that tends to expose an individual to public contempt, ridicule, or disgrace is forbidden.
    Ex: He says the library science degree is a racket; that there's nothing taught in library school that can't be better learned on the job.
    * armar escándalo = make + a ruckus.
    * armar un escándalo = raise + a stink, kick up + a fuss, kick up + a stink, make + a stink (about), make + a racket, make + a row, kick up + a row.
    * de escándalo = outrageous.
    * escándalo político = political scandal.
    * escándalo público = public scandal.
    * escándalos sexuales = sleaze.
    * incitar escándalo = arouse + furor.
    * obras que revelan un escándalo = exposé.
    * persona que desvela escándalos o corrupción = muckraker.
    * revelación de escándalos o corrupción = muckraking.

    * * *
    A (hecho, asunto chocante) scandal
    está implicado en un escándalo financiero he's involved in a financial scandal
    ¡qué escándalo! ¡qué manera de vestir! what a shocking o an outrageous way to dress!
    es un escándalo cómo suben los precios it's shocking o scandalous the way prices are going up
    la noticia provocó un gran escándalo the news caused (a) great scandal o outrage
    [ S ] precios de escándalo amazing prices
    Compuesto:
    public indecency
    B
    (alboroto, jaleo): no armen or hagan tanto escándalo don't make such a racket o row o ( AmE) ruckus ( colloq)
    cuando le presentaron la cuenta armó un escándalo when they gave him the bill he kicked up a fuss o stink o he created a scene ( colloq)
    nada de escándalos dentro del local we don't want any trouble in here
    un borracho que daba un escándalo en la calle a drunk who was causing a commotion o scene in the street
    * * *

    escándalo sustantivo masculino
    1 (hecho, asunto chocante) scandal;
    ◊ ¡qué escándalo! ¡qué manera de vestir! what a shocking o an outrageous way to dress!

    2 (alboroto, jaleo) fuss;

    cuando lo sepa va a armar un escándalo when she finds out she'll kick up a fuss;
    no armen tanto escándalo don't make such a racket o row (colloq);
    nada de escándalos dentro del local we don't want any trouble in here
    escándalo sustantivo masculino
    1 (ruido, jaleo) row, racket, din: con este escándalo vais a despertar a los vecinos, you'll wake up the neighbours with all this row
    2 (inmoralidad) scandal
    ' escándalo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    armar
    - campanada
    - carnaza
    - espectáculo
    - follón
    - montar
    - organizar
    - polvareda
    - salpicar
    - vergüenza
    - boca
    - deber
    - descubierto
    - destapar
    - estallar
    - luz
    English:
    breath
    - capital
    - catch up
    - disgrace
    - disorderly
    - furor
    - furore
    - fuss
    - hush up
    - row
    - rumpus
    - scandal
    - scene
    - stink
    - blow
    - carry
    - kick
    - outrage
    * * *
    ♦ nm
    1. [hecho inmoral] scandal;
    [indignación] outrage;
    un escándalo de corrupción política a political corruption scandal;
    hubo escándalo generalizado entre la opinión pública there was widespread indignation among public opinion;
    ¡esto es un escándalo!, quiero que me devuelvan el dinero this is outrageous! I want my money back;
    los sueldos de los políticos son un escándalo o [m5] de escándalo politicians' salaries are a scandal o a disgrace;
    sus declaraciones causaron escándalo her statements caused a great scandal
    Der escándalo público public indecency;
    escándalo sexual sex scandal
    2. [alboroto] uproar, racket;
    ¡dejen ya de armar tanto escándalo! stop making such a racket!;
    armar un escándalo to kick up a fuss;
    menudo escándalo armó al enterarse she made quite a scene when she found out
    ♦ de escándalo loc adj
    Fam
    1. [enorme] enormous;
    una goleada de escándalo a real hammering
    2. [asombroso] astonishing;
    precios de auténtico escándalo really amazing prices
    * * *
    m
    1 ( asunto vergonzoso) scandal
    2 ( jaleo) racket, ruckus;
    armar un escándalo make a scene
    * * *
    1) : scandal
    2) : scene, commotion
    * * *
    1. (asunto) scandal
    2. (ruido) racket

    Spanish-English dictionary > escándalo

  • 16 feroz

    adj.
    1 fierce, ferocious (animal, bestia).
    2 cruel, savage (criminal, asesino).
    3 terrible (intenso) (dolor, angustia).
    tenía un hambre feroz he was ravenous o starving
    la competencia es feroz the competition is fierce
    4 horrendous, dreadful.
    * * *
    ► adjetivo (pl feroces)
    1 fierce, ferocious
    \
    el lobo feroz the big bad wolf
    * * *
    adj.
    fierce, ferocious
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=salvaje) fierce, ferocious

    tengo un hambre feroz — I'm starving, I'm famished

    2) (=cruel) cruel
    3) LAm (=feo) ugly
    * * *
    a) < animal> ferocious, fierce; <ataque/mirada/odio> fierce, vicious; <viento/tempestad> fierce, violent

    tengo un hambre feroz — (fam) I'm ravenous o starved (colloq)

    b) (Col, Méx, Ven fam) ( feo) horrendous (colloq)
    * * *
    = fierce [fiercer -comp., fiercest -sup.], savage, swingeing, ferocius, ferocious, cutthroat, truculent.
    Ex. The greatest living theoretician of descriptive cataloging, Professor Seymour Lubetzky, graced our library with his brilliance, insight, and fierce dedication to the integrity of the catalog.
    Ex. The most vulnerable nations are Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, which have all experienced savage war and civil unrest in recent years.
    Ex. Faced with the prospect of a swingeing cut of 15% in the periodical budget, the library had to determine which titles could be cancelled with least damage to the integrity of the research collections.
    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. 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. 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. Senior staff members said that these fevers of truculent behavior had manifested themselves only within the past two or three years.
    ----
    * crítica feroz = hatchet job.
    * * *
    a) < animal> ferocious, fierce; <ataque/mirada/odio> fierce, vicious; <viento/tempestad> fierce, violent

    tengo un hambre feroz — (fam) I'm ravenous o starved (colloq)

    b) (Col, Méx, Ven fam) ( feo) horrendous (colloq)
    * * *
    = fierce [fiercer -comp., fiercest -sup.], savage, swingeing, ferocius, ferocious, cutthroat, truculent.

    Ex: The greatest living theoretician of descriptive cataloging, Professor Seymour Lubetzky, graced our library with his brilliance, insight, and fierce dedication to the integrity of the catalog.

    Ex: The most vulnerable nations are Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, which have all experienced savage war and civil unrest in recent years.
    Ex: Faced with the prospect of a swingeing cut of 15% in the periodical budget, the library had to determine which titles could be cancelled with least damage to the integrity of the research collections.
    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: 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: 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: Senior staff members said that these fevers of truculent behavior had manifested themselves only within the past two or three years.
    * crítica feroz = hatchet job.

    * * *
    1 ‹animal› ferocious, fierce; ‹ataque/mirada› fierce, vicious; ‹viento/tempestad› fierce, violent; ‹fanatismo› fierce
    bajo el feroz sol del mediodía beneath the fierce midday sun
    se desató una feroz tempestad a fierce o violent storm was unleashed ( liter)
    tengo un hambre feroz ( fam); I'm ravenous o starved ( colloq)
    2 (Col, Méx fam) (feo) horrendous ( colloq)
    un verde feroz a ghastly o horrendous green ( colloq)
    * * *

    Multiple Entries:
    algo feroz    
    feroz
    feroz adjetivo
    a) ‹ animal› ferocious, fierce;

    ‹ataque/mirada/odio› fierce, vicious;
    ‹viento/tempestad› fierce, violent
    b) (Col, Méx, Ven fam) ( feo) horrendous (colloq)

    feroz adjetivo fierce, ferocious: tengo un hambre feroz, I'm ravenous
    una crítica feroz, savage criticism
    ' feroz' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bestia
    - un
    English:
    cutthroat
    - destroy
    - ferocious
    - fierce
    - glare
    - rat race
    - ravenous
    - savage
    - cut
    - furious
    - hard
    - vicious
    * * *
    feroz adj
    1. [animal, bestia] fierce, ferocious
    2. [criminal, asesino] cruel, savage
    3. [intenso] [tempestad] fierce, violent;
    [dolor, angustia] terrible;
    tenía un hambre feroz I was ravenous o starving;
    la competencia es feroz the competition is fierce;
    lanzó un ataque feroz contra la propuesta del gobierno he launched a fierce attack against the government's proposal
    4. Fam [enorme] massive;
    agarraron una feroz borrachera they got terribly o incredibly drunk
    * * *
    adj fierce; ( cruel) cruel
    * * *
    feroz adj, pl feroces fiero: ferocious, fierce
    ♦ ferozmente adv
    * * *
    feroz adj fierce / ferocious

    Spanish-English dictionary > feroz

  • 17 fiero

    adj.
    1 fierce, feral, ferocious, rancorous.
    2 harsh, angry.
    * * *
    1 (animal salvaje) wild; (feroz) fierce, ferocious
    2 (persona) cruel
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) (=feroz) fierce, ferocious; (Zool) wild
    2) (=cruel) cruel
    3) † (=feo) ugly
    2.
    † SMPL (=amenazas) threats; (=bravatas) boasts, bragging sing

    echar o hacer fieros — (=amenazas) to utter threats; (=bravatas) to boast, brag

    * * *
    - ra adjetivo
    a) ( feroz) < animal> fierce, ferocious; <huracán/tormenta> fierce
    b) (RPl fam) ( feo) ugly
    * * *
    = ferocius, ferocious.
    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. 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.
    * * *
    - ra adjetivo
    a) ( feroz) < animal> fierce, ferocious; <huracán/tormenta> fierce
    b) (RPl fam) ( feo) ugly
    * * *
    = ferocius, ferocious.

    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: 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.

    * * *
    fiero -ra
    1 (feroz) ‹animal› fierce, ferocious; ‹huracán/tormenta› fierce
    animales de aspecto fiero fierce-looking animals
    2 ( RPl fam) (feo) ugly
    es fiera como la noche she's as ugly as sin ( colloq)
    * * *

    fiero
    ◊ -ra adjetivo ‹ animal› fierce, ferocious

    fiero,-a adjetivo
    1 (animal) wild
    2 (batalla, combate) fierce, ferocious

    ' fiero' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    brava
    - bravo
    - fiera
    English:
    fierce
    - raging
    - vicious
    * * *
    fiero, -a adj
    1. [feroz] savage, ferocious
    2. RP Fam [feo] [persona, edificio] hideous;
    [situación] horrendous;
    no vayas a su casa que está fiera la cosa don't go round to his place because things are pretty heavy
    * * *
    adj fierce
    * * *
    fiero, -ra adj
    feroz: fierce, ferocious
    * * *
    fiero adj (feroz) fierce / ferocious

    Spanish-English dictionary > fiero

  • 18 hacer cisco

    v.
    to tear to pieces, to smash into smithereens.
    * * *
    (v.) = tear + apart, wipe + the floor with
    Ex. He is a stickler for detail and can tear apart a budget or a balance sheet faster than anyone.
    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.
    * * *
    (v.) = tear + apart, wipe + the floor with

    Ex: He is a stickler for detail and can tear apart a budget or a balance sheet faster than anyone.

    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.

    Spanish-English dictionary > hacer cisco

  • 19 hacer trizas

    v.
    to tear to shreds, to shred, to cut up, to break to pieces.
    * * *
    (destrozar) to tear to shreds 2 (gastar) to wear out
    * * *
    * * *
    (v.) = wipe + the floor with
    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.
    * * *
    (v.) = wipe + the floor with

    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.

    Spanish-English dictionary > hacer trizas

  • 20 jaleo

    m.
    1 row, rumpus (alboroto).
    armar jaleo to kick up a row o fuss
    2 mess, confusion.
    3 cheering (aplausos, gritos).
    4 fuss, babel, racket, row.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: jalear.
    * * *
    1 (alboroto) din, racket
    2 (escándalo) fuss, commotion
    3 (riña) row
    4 (confusión) muddle
    * * *
    SM
    1) * (=ruido) row, racket
    2) * (=confusión) mess, muddle; (=problema) hassle
    3) * (=juerga) binge *
    4) (Mús) shouting and clapping ( to encourage dancers)
    5) (Caza) hallooing
    * * *
    masculino (fam)
    a) (alboroto, ruido) racket (colloq), row (colloq)
    b) ( confusión) muddle, mess; ( desorden) mess; ( problemas) hassle (colloq)
    d) ( riña) brawl
    * * *
    = fireworks, buzz, rumpus, hoopla, hubbub, ruckus, commotion, racket, palaver.
    Ex. 'You know, Tom, if I ever find another job -- and I'm already looking -- there will be some fireworks around here before I leave, I can guarantee you that!'.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Turf wars in the playback software arena: Microsoft Netshow, Windows Multimedia Player, and all that buzz'.
    Ex. Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.
    Ex. Amid the hoopla, she hasn't forgotten its roots.
    Ex. And arming himself with patience and piety he tarried awhile until the hubbub was stilled.
    Ex. Sometime back a heroine created a ruckus by saying that the actor acted fresh with her by biting her lips in a smooching scene.
    Ex. She pleaded, futilely, in broken French, until an elderly man, hearing the commotion, came to her rescue.
    Ex. He says the library science degree is a racket; that there's nothing taught in library school that can't be better learned on the job.
    Ex. Most fashion-conscious shoppers will beaware of the palaver caused last month by the swastika design embroidered on a Zara handbag.
    ----
    * ¡qué jaleo! = what a palaver!.
    * * *
    masculino (fam)
    a) (alboroto, ruido) racket (colloq), row (colloq)
    b) ( confusión) muddle, mess; ( desorden) mess; ( problemas) hassle (colloq)
    d) ( riña) brawl
    * * *
    = fireworks, buzz, rumpus, hoopla, hubbub, ruckus, commotion, racket, palaver.

    Ex: 'You know, Tom, if I ever find another job -- and I'm already looking -- there will be some fireworks around here before I leave, I can guarantee you that!'.

    Ex: The article is entitled 'Turf wars in the playback software arena: Microsoft Netshow, Windows Multimedia Player, and all that buzz'.
    Ex: Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.
    Ex: Amid the hoopla, she hasn't forgotten its roots.
    Ex: And arming himself with patience and piety he tarried awhile until the hubbub was stilled.
    Ex: Sometime back a heroine created a ruckus by saying that the actor acted fresh with her by biting her lips in a smooching scene.
    Ex: She pleaded, futilely, in broken French, until an elderly man, hearing the commotion, came to her rescue.
    Ex: He says the library science degree is a racket; that there's nothing taught in library school that can't be better learned on the job.
    Ex: Most fashion-conscious shoppers will beaware of the palaver caused last month by the swastika design embroidered on a Zara handbag.
    * ¡qué jaleo! = what a palaver!.

    * * *
    ( fam)
    1 (alboroto, ruido) racket ( colloq), row ( colloq), ruckus ( AmE colloq)
    2 (confusión) muddle, mess; (desorden) mess; (problemas) hassle ( colloq)
    me armo un jaleo con estas calles I get into a muddle o I get confused with these streets
    perdón por este jaleo, es que acabo de llegar de viaje excuse the mess, I've just got back from a trip
    3
    (actividad intensa): hemos tenido mucho jaleo en casa everything's been very hectic at home
    con todo el jaleo de la mudanza with all the upheaval of the move
    4 (riña) brawl
    aquí no quiero jaleos I don't want any brawling here
    * * *

    Del verbo jalear: ( conjugate jalear)

    jaleo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    jaleó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    jalear    
    jaleo
    jaleo sustantivo masculino (fam)
    a) (alboroto, ruido) racket (colloq), row (colloq)


    ( desorden) mess;
    ( problemas) hassle (colloq)


    con todo el jaleo de la mudanza with all the upheaval of the move
    d) ( riña) brawl

    jalear vtr (animar) to cheer (on)
    jaleo sustantivo masculino
    1 (ruido) din, racket
    armar jaleo, to make a racket
    2 (situación confusa) muddle
    3 (bronca) row
    ' jaleo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alborotar
    - alboroto
    - buena
    - bueno
    - bulla
    - cacao
    - escándalo
    - folclore
    - follón
    - lomo
    - meter
    - montarse
    - ruido
    - taco
    - zarabanda
    - armar
    - gresca
    - pelotera
    - quilombo
    - revuelta
    English:
    almighty
    - din
    - fuss
    - racket
    - ruckus
    - rumpus
    - to-do
    - ructions
    - to
    * * *
    jaleo nm
    Fam
    1. [lío] mess, confusion;
    había un jaleo enorme a la entrada del estadio it was utter chaos outside the stadium;
    no encuentro el documento entre tanto jaleo de papeles I can't find the document amongst all this muddle o jumble of papers;
    tengo mucho jaleo en la oficina things are pretty hectic for me at the office just now;
    un jaleo de cifras a jumble of figures;
    en menudo jaleo te has metido that's a real mess you've landed yourself in;
    con este programa me armo mucho jaleo this program is a nightmare
    2. [alboroto] row, rumpus;
    armar jaleo to kick up a row o fuss
    3. [ruido] racket, row;
    [aplausos, gritos] cheering;
    armar jaleo to make a racket
    * * *
    m
    1 ( ruido) racket, uproar;
    armar jaleo fam kick up a fuss fam
    2 ( lío) mess, muddle
    * * *
    jaleo nm, fam
    1) : uproar, ruckus, racket
    2) fam : confusion, hassle
    3) : cheering and clapping (for a dance)
    * * *
    1. (ruido) racket / row
    ¡no arméis tanto jaleo! stop making such a racket!
    2. (problemas) trouble
    como se entere tu padre, habrá jaleo there'll be trouble if your dad finds out

    Spanish-English dictionary > jaleo

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