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1 astuto

adj.

1 sly, artful, astute, crafty.

2 clever, sharp, quick-witted, sharp-witted.

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astuto

► adjetivo

1 astute, cunning, shrewd

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(f. - astuta)

adj.

1) astute, shrewd

2) crafty

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ADJ (=sagaz) astute, clever; (=mañoso) crafty, sly

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- ta adjetivo ( sagaz) shrewd, astute; (pey) ( taimado) crafty, cunning

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= clever [cleverer -comp., cleverest -sup.], shrewd [shrewder -comp., shrewdest -sup.], wily [wilier -comp., wiliest -sup.], streetwise [street-wise], astute, skilful [skillful, -USA], cunning, crafty, shifty, canny, artful, sly [slyer/slier -comp., slyest/sliest -sup.].

Ex. It is readily possible to construct a machine which will manipulate premises in accordance with formal logic, simply by the clever use of relay circuits.

Ex. Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.

Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Ex. And because it refuses to express itself in the kind of language we have to assume would be natural to Slake himself slangy, staccato, flip, street-wise we are forced into the position of observing him rather than feeling at one with him.

Ex. It requires an extraordinarily astute librarian to uncover this shortcoming at the interview stage.

Ex. The acquisition of these materials is a skilful job demanding the sort of dedication that a housewife brings to the running of her home.

Ex. The article 'Collection development policies: a cunning plan' looks at the value of collection development policy statements and what they can and cannot do.

Ex. Crafty! He wanted nothing to do with the straitjacket of guidelines and so-called standards = ¡Qué astuto! no quería saber nada de las restricciones que imponen las directrices y las "supuestas" normas.

Ex. 'Client' has overtones of shifty lawyers and overpaid realtors.

Ex. The principles behind successful commercial Web sites (clear mission, valuable content, clean design and canny publicity) can be applied by academics in establishing non-profit Web sites.

Ex. She is not just lissome and beautiful, but also cultured, artful, expressive, and energetic.

Ex. You must be a bit sly sometimes to succeed in the world.

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* ser más astuto que = outfox, outwit, outsmart.

* tan astuto como un zorro = as sly as a fox, as wily as a fox.

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- ta adjetivo ( sagaz) shrewd, astute; (pey) ( taimado) crafty, cunning

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= clever [cleverer -comp., cleverest -sup.], shrewd [shrewder -comp., shrewdest -sup.], wily [wilier -comp., wiliest -sup.], streetwise [street-wise], astute, skilful [skillful, -USA], cunning, crafty, shifty, canny, artful, sly [slyer/slier -comp., slyest/sliest -sup.].

Ex: It is readily possible to construct a machine which will manipulate premises in accordance with formal logic, simply by the clever use of relay circuits.

Ex: Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.

Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Ex: And because it refuses to express itself in the kind of language we have to assume would be natural to Slake himself slangy, staccato, flip, street-wise we are forced into the position of observing him rather than feeling at one with him.

Ex: It requires an extraordinarily astute librarian to uncover this shortcoming at the interview stage.

Ex: The acquisition of these materials is a skilful job demanding the sort of dedication that a housewife brings to the running of her home.

Ex: The article 'Collection development policies: a cunning plan' looks at the value of collection development policy statements and what they can and cannot do.

Ex: Crafty! He wanted nothing to do with the straitjacket of guidelines and so-called standards = ¡Qué astuto! no quería saber nada de las restricciones que imponen las directrices y las "supuestas" normas.

Ex: 'Client' has overtones of shifty lawyers and overpaid realtors.

Ex: The principles behind successful commercial Web sites (clear mission, valuable content, clean design and canny publicity) can be applied by academics in establishing non-profit Web sites.

Ex: She is not just lissome and beautiful, but also cultured, artful, expressive, and energetic.

Ex: You must be a bit sly sometimes to succeed in the world.

* ser más astuto que = outfox, outwit, outsmart.

* tan astuto como un zorro = as sly as a fox, as wily as a fox.

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astuto -ta

adjective

1 (sagaz) shrewd, astute

no la podrás engañar, es demasiado astuta you won't be able to fool her, she's too shrewd o astute o ( colloq) smart

2 ( pey) (taimado) crafty, wily, cunning

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astuto
◊ -ta adjetivo ( sagaz) shrewd, astute;

( ladino) (pey) crafty, sly, cunning
astuto,-a adjetivo astute, shrewd
' astuto' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
astuta
- cuca
- cuco
- espabilada
- espabilado
- guachinanga
- guachinango
- hábil
- ladina
- ladino
- pilla
- pillo
- zorra
- zorro
- jodido
- listo
- pícaro
- piola
- taimado
- vivo
English:
artful
- astute
- canny
- crafty
- cunning
- foxy
- outfox
- outsmart
- sharp
- shrewd
- sly
- tricky
- worldly-wise
- wily

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astuto, -a adj

1. [ladino, tramposo] cunning

2. [sagaz, listo] astute

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astuto

adj shrewd, astute

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astuto, -ta adj

1) : astute, shrewd

2) : crafty, tricky

♦ astutamente adv

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astuto adj

1. (hábil) shrewd / astute

es astuta y no se deja engañar fácilmente she's shrewd and is not easily deceived

2. (malicioso) cunning / sly [comp. slyer; superl. slyest]

se dice que el zorro es muy astuto people say foxes are very cunning

Spanish-English dictionary > astuto
2 sagaz

adj.

astute, shrewd.

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sagaz

► adjetivo (pl sagaces)

1 clever, sagacious

2 (astuto) shrewd, astute

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ADJ

1) [persona] (=astuto) shrewd, clever; (=perspicaz) sagacious

2) [perro] keen-scented

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adjetivo shrewd, astute

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= canny, politic, vivacious, wily [wilier -comp., wiliest -sup.], sly [slyer/slier -comp., slyest/sliest -sup.], perceptive, keen-witted, shrewd [shrewder -comp., shrewdest -sup.].

Ex. The principles behind successful commercial Web sites (clear mission, valuable content, clean design and canny publicity) can be applied by academics in establishing non-profit Web sites.

Ex. Libraries are often confronted with finding a way of dealing with gift books which is both efficient and politic.

Ex. This petite, agile, graceful and vivacious artiste was a picture of self-confidence on the stage.

Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Ex. You must be a bit sly sometimes to succeed in the world.

Ex. In their profound and perceptive essay on professionalism, Mary Lee Bundy and Paul Wasserman write at some length on this extraordinary phenomenon, 'the essential timidity of responsibility for solving informational problems and providing unequivocal answers'.

Ex. She is famous for her series featuring homicide detective Peter Decker and his keen-witted, beautiful wife.

Ex. Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.

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adjetivo shrewd, astute

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= canny, politic, vivacious, wily [wilier -comp., wiliest -sup.], sly [slyer/slier -comp., slyest/sliest -sup.], perceptive, keen-witted, shrewd [shrewder -comp., shrewdest -sup.].

Ex: The principles behind successful commercial Web sites (clear mission, valuable content, clean design and canny publicity) can be applied by academics in establishing non-profit Web sites.

Ex: Libraries are often confronted with finding a way of dealing with gift books which is both efficient and politic.

Ex: This petite, agile, graceful and vivacious artiste was a picture of self-confidence on the stage.

Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Ex: You must be a bit sly sometimes to succeed in the world.

Ex: In their profound and perceptive essay on professionalism, Mary Lee Bundy and Paul Wasserman write at some length on this extraordinary phenomenon, 'the essential timidity of responsibility for solving informational problems and providing unequivocal answers'.

Ex: She is famous for her series featuring homicide detective Peter Decker and his keen-witted, beautiful wife.

Ex: Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.

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sagaz

adjective

shrewd, astute

un político sagaz y avezado a shrewd o astute and experienced politician

ten cuidado con él, es muy sagaz watch out for him, he's very shrewd o sharp o wily

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sagaz adjetivo
shrewd, astute
sagaz adj (perspicaz, agudo) shrewd, astute
' sagaz' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
astucia
- astuto
English:
sagacious
- astute
- discriminating
- probing

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sagaz adj

astute, shrewd

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sagaz

adj shrewd, sharp

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sagaz adj, pl sagaces perspicaz: shrewd, discerning, sagacious

Spanish-English dictionary > sagaz
3 tan astuto como un zorro

= as sly as a fox, as wily as a fox

Ex. She was in trouble and wanted to marry a fortune and save the whole family -- as sly as a fox.

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.

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= as sly as a fox, as wily as a fox

Ex: She was in trouble and wanted to marry a fortune and save the whole family -- as sly as a fox.

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.

Spanish-English dictionary > tan astuto como un zorro
4 perro

m.

dog, canine.

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perro

► adjetivo

1 rotten

► nombre masculino perro

1 ZOOLOGÍA dog

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FRASEOLOGÍA

'Cuidado con el perro' "Beware of the dog"

a otro perro con ese hueso pull the other one

atar los perros con longaniza familiar to have money to burn

coger una perra familiar to have a tantrum

de perros familiar rotten, lousy

llevar una vida de perros familiar to lead a dog's life

llevarse como el perro y el gato familiar to fight like cat and dog

no valer ni tres perras gordas familiar not to be worth a penny

perro ladrador, poco mordedor his (her etc) bark is worse than his (her etc) bite

ser perro viejo familiar to be long in the tooth

perro caliente hot dog

perro callejero stray dog

perro de caza hunting dog

perro de compañía pet dog

perro de muestra pointer

perro de rastro tracker dog

perro faldero lapdog

perro pastor sheepdog

perro perdiguero gundog

perro policía police dog

perro rastrero tracker dog

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perro

► nombre masculino

1 ZOOLOGÍA dog

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(f. - perra)

noun

dog

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1. SM

1) (Zool) dog

cuidado con el perro — beware of the dog

perro afgano — Afghan hound

perro antiexplosivos, perro buscadrogas — sniffer dog

perro callejero — stray (dog)

perro cobrador — retriever

perro dálmata — dalmatian

perro de agua — CAm coypu

perro de aguas — spaniel

perro de casta — pedigree dog

perro de caza — hunting dog

perro de ciego — guide dog

perro de lanas — poodle

perro de muestra — pointer

perro de presa — bulldog

perro de raza — pedigree dog

perro de San Bernardo — St Bernard

perro de Terranova — Newfoundland dog

perro de trineo — husky, sled dog

perro dogo — bulldog

perro esquimal — husky

perro faldero — lapdog

perro guardián — guard dog

perro guía — guide dog

perro lazarillo — guide dog

perro lebrel — whippet

perro lobo — alsatian, German shepherd

perro marino — dogfish

perro pastor — sheepdog

perro pequinés — Pekinese

perro policía — police dog

perro raposero — foxhound

perro rastreador, perro rastrero — tracker dog

perro salchicha — * sausage dog *, dachshund

perro vagabundo — stray (dog)

perro zorrero — foxhound

2)

- ¡a otro perro con ese hueso!

atar perros con longaniza —

se cree que allí atan los perros con longaniza — he thinks it's the land of milk and honey

- de perros

estaba de un humor de perros — he was in a foul o stinking mood

tiempo de perros — foul o dirty weather

- echarle los perros a algn

- echar una hora a perros

- hacer perro muerto

- heder a perro muerto

- meter los perros en danza

¿qué perro te/le mordió? — Caribe * what's up with you/him? *

- llevarse como el perro y el gato

- ser como el perro del hortelano

- ser perro viejo

- tratar a algn como a un perro

- vida de perro

- a perro flaco todo son pulgas

- perro ladrador, poco mordedor

3) (Culin)

perro caliente — hot dog

4) * pey (=holgazán) lazy sod ***

5) * pey (=persona despreciable) swine **

6) And (=modorra) drowsiness

7) Cono Sur clothes peg, clothes pin (EEUU)

2.

ADJ * rotten *

¡qué perra suerte la mía! — what rotten luck I have! *

esta perra vida — this wretched life

¡qué perra vida! — life's a bitch! *

he pasado una temporada perra — I've been through a rough patch *

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I
- rra adjetivo

a) (fam) <vida/suerte> rotten (colloq), lousy (colloq)

b) < persona> nasty
II
- rra masculino, femenino

1) (Zool) dog

cuidado con el perro! — beware of the dog

a otro perro con ese hueso — (fam) go tell it to the marines! (AmE colloq), pull the other one! (BrE colloq)

atar perros con longaniza — (fam) to have money to burn (colloq)

como perro en cancha de bochas — (RPl fam & hum)

andar más perdido que perro en cancha de bochas — to be like a fish out of water

me tuvieron todo el día como perro en cancha de bochas — they had me rushing around from pillar to post all day long (colloq)

como un perro — (fam)

terminó sus días como un perro — he ended his days in the gutter

me dejó tirado como un perro — she abandoned me as if I were a stray dog

de perros — (fam) foul

hace un tiempo de perros — the weather's foul o horrible

está de un humor de perros — he's in a foul mood

echarle los perros a alguien — (fam) ( para ahuyentar) to set the dogs on somebody; ( recibir muy mal) to give somebody a hostile reception (colloq)

es el mismo perro con diferente collar — nothing has really changed, it's the same people (o regime etc) under a different name

estar meado de perros — (CS fam) to be plagued o dogged by bad luck

hacer perro muerto — (Chi fam) to do a runner (colloq)

llevarse como (el) perro y (el) gato — to fight like cats and dogs (AmE) o (BrE) cat and dog

meterle a alguien el perro — (RPl fam) to con somebody (colloq)

no tener ni perro que le ladre — (fam) to be all alone in the world

perro no come perro — (Col fam) there is honor* among thieves

ser como el perro del hortelano (que ni come ni deja comer al amo) — to be a dog in the manger

ser perro viejo — to be a wily o shrewd old bird (colloq)

tratar a alguien como a un perro — to treat somebody like dirt

a perro flaco todo son pulgas — it never rains but it pours

perro que ladra no muerde or (Esp) perro ladrador, poco mordedor — his/her bark's worse than his/her bite

- perro callejero

- perro de caza

- perro de compañía

- perro de lanas

- perro de presa

- perro esquimal

- perro guardián

- perro guía or lazarillo

- perro lobo

- perro pastor

- perro pequinés or pekinés

- perro or perrito caliente

- perro or perrito faldero

- perro policía or policial

- perro rastreador

- perro salchicha

2) ( persona) tyrant

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= dog.

Ex. The phenomena studied by disciplines may be either concrete entities, such as adolescent, motor car, dog or diamond or abstract ideas such as love, beauty or hate.

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* caseta para el perro = kennel, doghouse.

* collar de perro = dog collar.

* comida para perros = dog food.

* como el perro del hortelano que ni come ni deja comer = a dog in the manger.

* con un humor de perros = like a bear with a sore head, in a foul mood.

* criadero de perros = breeding kennel.

* criador de perros = dog breeder.

* día de perros = bad hair day.

* el perro es el mejor amigo del hombre = a dog is man's best friend.

* humor de perros = vicious temper.

* llevar una vida de perros = lead + a dog's life.

* más hambre que el perro de un ciego = as hungry as a wolf, as hungry as a bear, as hungry as a hunter.

* no buscarle las pulgas al perro = let + sleeping dogs lie.

* pelea de perros = dogfight [dog fight].

* perro callejero = garbage dog, mutt, mongrel, street dog, stray dog.

* perro de caza = hound, bloodhound, gun dog, gun dog.

* perro de guerra = dog of war, war dog.

* perro de rastreo = rescue dog, sniffer dog, search dog.

* perro de rescate = rescue dog, search dog.

* perro de trineo = sled dog.

* perro faldero = pug, lap dog.

* perro guardián = guard dog.

* perro guía = guide dog.

* perro labrador = Labrador retriever.

* perro ladrador, poco mordedor = Posesivo + bark is worse than + Posesivo + bite, barking dogs seldom bite.

* perro lazarillo = guide dog.

* perro mapache = raccoon dog.

* perro mestizo = mongrel.

* perro ovejero = sheepdog.

* perro pastor = sheepdog.

* perro peligroso = vicious dog.

* perro perdiguero = golden retriever.

* perro policía = police dog.

* perro rabioso = rabid dog.

* perro raposero = foxhound.

* perro rastreador = tracker dog, bloodhound, sleuthhound, sniffer dog.

* perro salchicha = dachshund, sausage dog, wiener dog.

* perro zorrero = foxhound.

* salchicha para perros = dog sausage.

* salmón perro = chum, chum salmon, dog salmon.

* temperamento de perros = vicious temper.

* vida de perros = a dog's life.

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I
- rra adjetivo

a) (fam) <vida/suerte> rotten (colloq), lousy (colloq)

b) < persona> nasty
II
- rra masculino, femenino

1) (Zool) dog

cuidado con el perro! — beware of the dog

a otro perro con ese hueso — (fam) go tell it to the marines! (AmE colloq), pull the other one! (BrE colloq)

atar perros con longaniza — (fam) to have money to burn (colloq)

como perro en cancha de bochas — (RPl fam & hum)

andar más perdido que perro en cancha de bochas — to be like a fish out of water

me tuvieron todo el día como perro en cancha de bochas — they had me rushing around from pillar to post all day long (colloq)

como un perro — (fam)

terminó sus días como un perro — he ended his days in the gutter

me dejó tirado como un perro — she abandoned me as if I were a stray dog

de perros — (fam) foul

hace un tiempo de perros — the weather's foul o horrible

está de un humor de perros — he's in a foul mood

echarle los perros a alguien — (fam) ( para ahuyentar) to set the dogs on somebody; ( recibir muy mal) to give somebody a hostile reception (colloq)

es el mismo perro con diferente collar — nothing has really changed, it's the same people (o regime etc) under a different name

estar meado de perros — (CS fam) to be plagued o dogged by bad luck

hacer perro muerto — (Chi fam) to do a runner (colloq)

llevarse como (el) perro y (el) gato — to fight like cats and dogs (AmE) o (BrE) cat and dog

meterle a alguien el perro — (RPl fam) to con somebody (colloq)

no tener ni perro que le ladre — (fam) to be all alone in the world

perro no come perro — (Col fam) there is honor* among thieves

ser como el perro del hortelano (que ni come ni deja comer al amo) — to be a dog in the manger

ser perro viejo — to be a wily o shrewd old bird (colloq)

tratar a alguien como a un perro — to treat somebody like dirt

a perro flaco todo son pulgas — it never rains but it pours

perro que ladra no muerde or (Esp) perro ladrador, poco mordedor — his/her bark's worse than his/her bite

- perro callejero

- perro de caza

- perro de compañía

- perro de lanas

- perro de presa

- perro esquimal

- perro guardián

- perro guía or lazarillo

- perro lobo

- perro pastor

- perro pequinés or pekinés

- perro or perrito caliente

- perro or perrito faldero

- perro policía or policial

- perro rastreador

- perro salchicha

2) ( persona) tyrant

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= dog.

Ex: The phenomena studied by disciplines may be either concrete entities, such as adolescent, motor car, dog or diamond or abstract ideas such as love, beauty or hate.

* caseta para el perro = kennel, doghouse.

* collar de perro = dog collar.

* comida para perros = dog food.

* como el perro del hortelano que ni come ni deja comer = a dog in the manger.

* con un humor de perros = like a bear with a sore head, in a foul mood.

* criadero de perros = breeding kennel.

* criador de perros = dog breeder.

* día de perros = bad hair day.

* el perro es el mejor amigo del hombre = a dog is man's best friend.

* humor de perros = vicious temper.

* llevar una vida de perros = lead + a dog's life.

* más hambre que el perro de un ciego = as hungry as a wolf, as hungry as a bear, as hungry as a hunter.

* no buscarle las pulgas al perro = let + sleeping dogs lie.

* pelea de perros = dogfight [dog fight].

* perro callejero = garbage dog, mutt, mongrel, street dog, stray dog.

* perro de caza = hound, bloodhound, gun dog, gun dog.

* perro de guerra = dog of war, war dog.

* perro de rastreo = rescue dog, sniffer dog, search dog.

* perro de rescate = rescue dog, search dog.

* perro de trineo = sled dog.

* perro faldero = pug, lap dog.

* perro guardián = guard dog.

* perro guía = guide dog.

* perro labrador = Labrador retriever.

* perro ladrador, poco mordedor = Posesivo + bark is worse than + Posesivo + bite, barking dogs seldom bite.

* perro lazarillo = guide dog.

* perro mapache = raccoon dog.

* perro mestizo = mongrel.

* perro ovejero = sheepdog.

* perro pastor = sheepdog.

* perro peligroso = vicious dog.

* perro perdiguero = golden retriever.

* perro policía = police dog.

* perro rabioso = rabid dog.

* perro raposero = foxhound.

* perro rastreador = tracker dog, bloodhound, sleuthhound, sniffer dog.

* perro salchicha = dachshund, sausage dog, wiener dog.

* perro zorrero = foxhound.

* salchicha para perros = dog sausage.

* salmón perro = chum, chum salmon, dog salmon.

* temperamento de perros = vicious temper.

* vida de perros = a dog's life.

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perro¹ - rra

adjective

A ( fam); ‹vida/suerte› rotten ( colloq), lousy ( colloq)

¡qué perra suerte! what rotten o lousy luck!

B

1 ( fam) (severo) nasty

2 ( Col fam) (astuto) sneaky ( colloq), crafty ( colloq)

perro² - rra

masculine, feminine

A ( Zool) dog

[ S ] ¡cuidado con el perro! beware of the dog

a otro perro con ese hueso go tell it to the marines! ( AmE), pull the other one! ( BrE)

atar perros con longaniza ( fam); to have money to burn ( colloq)

como perro en cancha de bochas ( RPl fam hum): andar más perdido que perro en cancha de bochas to be like a fish out of water

me tuvieron todo el día como perro en cancha de bochas they had me rushing around from pillar to post all day long ( colloq)

como un perro ( fam): terminó sus días como un perro he ended his days in the gutter

me dejó tirado como un perro she abandoned me, as if I were a stray dog

murió como un perro, en la miseria he died in abject poverty, like a dog

de perros ( fam); foul

hace un tiempo de perros the weather's foul o horrible o terrible

está de un humor de perros he's in a foul mood

echarle los perros a algn ( fam) (para ahuyentar) to set the dogs on sb; (recibir muy mal) to give sb a hostile reception ( colloq)

es el mismo perro con diferente collar nothing has really changed, it's the same people ( o regime etc) under a different name

estar meado de perros (CS fam); to be plagued o dogged by bad luck

hacer perro muerto ( Chi fam); to do a runner ( colloq)

llevarse como (el) perro y (el) gato to fight like cat and dog

me/nos/les fue como a los perros en misa I/we/they had a terrible time of it ( colloq)

meterle a algn el perro ( RPl fam); to con sb ( colloq)

no tener ni perro que le ladre ( fam); to be all alone in the world

perro no come perro ( Col fam); there is honor* among thieves

perro viejo ladra sentado said of sb who has learned how to do things with a minimum of effort

ser como el perro del hortelano (que ni come ni deja comer al amo) to be a dog in the manger

ser perro viejo to be a wily o shrewd old bird ( colloq)

tratar a algn como a un perro to treat sb like dirt

a perro flaco todo son pulgas it never rains but it pours

muerto el perro, se acabó la rabia the best way to solve a problem is to attack the root cause of it

por un perro que maté, mataperros me llamaron give a dog a bad name

perro que ladra no muerde or ( Esp) perro ladrador, poco mordedor his/her bark's worse than his/her bite

Compuestos:

● perro afgano

Afghan (hound)

● perro alano

mastiff

● perro or perrito caliente

( Coc) hot dog

● perro callejero

stray dog, stray

● perro caniche

poodle

● perro de aguas

water dog

● perro de caza

gundog

● perro de compañía

pet dog

● perro or perrito de faldas

perro faldero

● perro or perrillo de las praderas

prairie dog

● perro de lanas

poodle

● perro de muestra

pointer

● perro (de) policía

( RPl) German shepherd, Alsatian ( BrE)

● perro de presa

bulldog

● perro de rastreo

perro rastreador

● perro esquimal

husky

● perro or perrito faldero

(animal) lapdog; (persona) ( fam) lapdog ( colloq)

● perro guardián

guard dog

● perro guía

guide dog

● perro lazarillo

guide dog

● perro lebrel

hound

● perro lobo

German shepherd, Alsatian ( BrE)

● perro lulú

spitz

● perro mastín

mastiff

● perro ovejero

sheepdog

● perro pachón

basset hound

● perro pastor

sheepdog

● perro pequinés or pekinés

Pekinese

● perro perdiguero

gundog

seguir a algn como perro perdiguero to pursue sb relentlessly

● perro podenco

spaniel

● perro policial

( Chi) German shepherd, Alsatian ( BrE)

● perro rastreador

(para seguir una huella) tracker dog; (para buscar drogas) sniffer dog

● perro salchicha

dachshund, sausage dog ( colloq)

B (persona) tyrant

C ( Chi fam) (como apelativo cariñoso) sweetie ( colloq), pet ( BrE colloq)

Compuesto:

perro choco

( Chi) (fam) sweetheart

D

perro masculine ( Chi)

1 (para la ropa) clothespin ( AmE), clothes-peg ( BrE)

2 (ficha) counter

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perro
◊ - rra sustantivo masculino, femenino (Zool) dog;

perro callejero stray (dog);
perro de compañía pet dog;
perro guardián guard dog;
perro guía or lazarillo guide dog;
perro pastor sheepdog;
perrito caliente (Coc) hot dog;
perrito faldero lapdog;
perro policía German shepherd, Alsatian (BrE);
perro rastreador ( para seguir una huella) tracker dog;

( para buscar drogas) sniffer dog;
◊ perro salchicha dachshund, sausage dog (colloq);

de perros (fam) foul;
hace un tiempo de perros the weather's foul o horrible;
está de un humor de perros he's in a foul mood;
llevarse como (el) perro y (el) gato to fight like cats and dogs (AmE) o (BrE) cat and dog
■ adjetivo (fam)
a) ‹vida/suerte› rotten (colloq), lousy (colloq)

b) ‹ persona› nasty

perro,-a
I sustantivo masculino y femenino dog
perro callejero, stray dog
perro de compañía, pet dog
perro guía, guide dog
perro faldero, (animal) lapdog
(persona) flatterer
II adjetivo
1 (una persona) swine
2 (una vida, etc) wretched
♦ Locuciones: atar los perros con longaniza, to have money to burn
llevarse como el perro y el gato, to fight like cat and dog
tiempo de perros, awful weather
' perro' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
A
- abandonada
- abandonado
- acariciar
- alerta
- ama
- amo
- caca
- cachorra
- cachorro
- callejera
- callejero
- caseta
- colear
- comer
- correa
- crespa
- crespo
- cruzarse
- cuidada
- cuidado
- dálmata
- danés
- danesa
- despegarse
- diente
- encerrar
- extranjis
- fiel
- guardián
- guardiana
- guía
- interdependencia
- lazarillo
- mano
- mimosa
- mimoso
- moribunda
- moribundo
- pastor
- pastora
- pecado
- pequinés
- pequinesa
- perdida
- perdido
- perra
- rastreador
- rastreadora
- raza
English:
A
- abandoned
- alarm
- Alsatian
- asleep
- back off
- bark
- bay
- beg
- beware
- big
- boxer
- chase away
- chew up
- collar
- dachshund
- Dalmatian
- destroy
- dislodge
- dog
- dog collar
- doghouse
- drench
- exercise
- exhaustion
- ferocious
- for
- gone
- growl
- guard dog
- guide dog
- hound
- howl
- husky
- lead
- let in
- loose
- manger
- mangy
- mess
- mistreat
- mongrel
- muzzle
- neuter
- nowhere
- of
- own
- pat
- pet
- pointer

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perro, -a

♦ adj
Fam
1. [asqueroso, desgraciado] lousy;

¡qué vida más perra! life's a bitch!;

llevan una vida muy perra they have a lousy life;

Comp
RP Fam
en la perra vida: en la perra vida le dije eso I never said that to him

2. [perezoso] bone idle;

¡mira que eres perro! you lazy so-and-so!

♦ nm

1. [animal] dog;

comida para perros dog food;

la caseta del perro the dog kennel;

¡cuidado con el perro! [en letrero] beware of the dog;

sacar a pasear al perro to walk the dog, to take the dog for a walk;

Comp

allí no atan los perros con longaniza the streets there aren't paved with gold;

Comp

andar o [m5] llevarse como el perro y el gato to fight like cat(s) and dog(s);

Comp
Fam
de perros [tiempo, humor] lousy;

hace un día de perros the weather's foul today, it's lousy weather today;

Comp
RP Fam
estar como perro en cancha de bochas to be completely lost;

Comp
Fam
echarle los perros a alguien [reprender] to have a go at sb;

Comp

ser como el perro del hortelano (que ni come ni deja comer al amo) to be a dog in the manger;

Comp
RP Fam
está meado por los perros he's jinxed;

Comp

el mismo perro con distinto collar: el nuevo régimen no es más que el mismo perro con distinto collar the new regime may have a different name but nothing has really changed;

Comp
Fam
¡a otro perro con ese hueso! Br pull the other one!, US tell it to the marines!;

Comp

tratar a alguien como a un perro to treat sb like a dog;

Comp

ser perro viejo to be an old hand;

Prov

muerto el perro, se acabó la rabia it's best to deal with problems at their source;

Prov

a perro flaco todo son pulgas the worse off you are, the more bad things seem to happen to you;

Prov

perro ladrador, poco mordedor, RP [m5] perro que ladra no muerde his/her bark is worse than his/her bite

Comp
perro callejero stray (dog);
perro de caza hunting dog;

perro cobrador retriever;

perro de compañía pet dog;

perro esquimal husky;

perro faldero [perrito] lapdog;
Fig [persona] lackey;
perro guardián guard dog, watchdog;

perro de lanas poodle;

perro lazarillo Br guide dog, US Seeing-Eye© dog;

perro lobo Alsatian, German shepherd;
RP perro ovejero sheepdog;
perro pastor sheepdog;

perro policía police dog;

perro de las praderas [roedor] prairie dog;

perro rastreador tracker dog;

perro de raza pedigree dog;

perro salchicha sausage dog;

perro de Terranova Newfoundland;

perro vagabundo stray dog

2. Fam [persona] swine, dog

3. Chile [pinza] Br clothes peg, US clothes pin

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perro

m dog;

hace un tiempo de perros fam the weather is lousy fam ;

llevarse como el perro y el gato fig fight like cat and dog;

a otro perro con ese hueso fig fam tell that to the marines! fam, Br

pull the other one (it’s got bells on)! fam ;

perro ladrador poco mordedor his bark is worse than his bite

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perro, - rra n

1) : dog, bitch f

2)

perro caliente : hot dog

3)

perro salchicha : dachsund

4)

perro faldero : lapdog

5)

perro cobrador : retriever

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perro n dog

de perros awful

llevarse como perro y gato to fight like cat and dog

perro guardián guard dog

perro lazarillo guide dog

perro pastor sheepdog

Spanish-English dictionary > perro
5 calmarse

calmarse

► verbo pronominal

1 (persona) to calm down

2 (dolor etc) to abate, ease off

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to calm down

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VPR

1) [persona] to calm down

¡cálmese! — calm down!

2) (Meteo) [viento] to drop; [olas] to calm down

calmarse las aguas —

las aguas se calmarán tras las elecciones — things will quieten down after the elections

3) (Econ) [mercado] to settle down

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(v.) = cool off, subside, take it + easy, chill out, quieten down, wind down

Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he would often hide in some nook of the station to save the fare, or riding, if necessary, till things cooled off and the world above became habitable again.

Ex. Her agitation subsided suddenly.

Ex. The next morning I wasn't sore at all (since I had taken it easy) but both Jason and I had second-degree sun and wind burns.

Ex. The author tells us that everyone is in too much of a rush and we should all chill out and savour the passing parade a bit more.

Ex. In this illustrated book, children are encouraged to make a racket before slowly quietening down for a sound night's sleep.

Ex. Then he started to wind down a bit and I felt like we were moving toward the topic he had been avoiding all week.

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(v.) = cool off, subside, take it + easy, chill out, quieten down, wind down

Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he would often hide in some nook of the station to save the fare, or riding, if necessary, till things cooled off and the world above became habitable again.

Ex: Her agitation subsided suddenly.

Ex: The next morning I wasn't sore at all (since I had taken it easy) but both Jason and I had second-degree sun and wind burns.

Ex: The author tells us that everyone is in too much of a rush and we should all chill out and savour the passing parade a bit more.

Ex: In this illustrated book, children are encouraged to make a racket before slowly quietening down for a sound night's sleep.

Ex: Then he started to wind down a bit and I felt like we were moving toward the topic he had been avoiding all week.

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■calmarse verbo reflexivo
1 (una persona) to calm down: esta tos no se me calma con nada, nothing can relieve my sore throat
2 (dismunir, apaciguarse) to ease off: salimos cuando se calmó la tormenta, we went out when the storm had died down
' calmarse' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
apaciguarse
- calmar
- serenarse
- tranquilizar
English:
blow over
- calm
- cool down
- cool off
- moderate
- pull together
- settle
- settle down
- simmer down
- wear off
- abate
- cool
- die
- ease
- pull
- quieten
- subside

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vpr

1. [persona, ánimos, situación] to calm down, to quieten down

2. [dolor, tempestad] to abate;
[fiebre] to subside; [wind] to die down
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calmarse

v/r calm down

* * *

vr

: to calm down

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calmarse vb to calm down

¡cálmate! calm down!

Spanish-English dictionary > calmarse
6 correr más deprisa que

(v.) = outrun [out-run]

Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

* * *

(v.) = outrun [out-run]

Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Spanish-English dictionary > correr más deprisa que
7 cruel

adj.

cruel.

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cruel

► adjetivo

1 (persona) cruel (con/para, to)

2 (clima) harsh, severe

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adj.

cruel

* * *

ADJ cruel

fue una cruel ironía — it was a cruel irony

el destino cruel — cruel fate

ser cruel con algn — to be cruel to sb

* * *

adjetivo cruel

ser cruel con alguien — to be cruel to somebody

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.

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* volverse cruel = become + vicious.

* * *

adjetivo cruel

ser cruel con alguien — to be cruel to somebody

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.

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cruel

adjective

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)

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cruel adjetivo
cruel;
◊ ser cruel con algn to be cruel to sb

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

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cruel

adj cruel

* * *

cruel adj

: cruel

♦ cruelmente adv

* * *

cruel adj cruel

Spanish-English dictionary > cruel
8 dar el esquinazo

(v.) = dodge

Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

* * *

(v.) = dodge

Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Spanish-English dictionary > dar el esquinazo
9 delgado y fuerte

(adj.) = wiry

Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

* * *

(adj.) = wiry

Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Spanish-English dictionary > delgado y fuerte
10 desapercibido

adj.

1 unnoticed, unobserved, un-noticed, unperceived.

2 unprepared, not ready, unaware.

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desapercibido

► adjetivo

1 (inadvertido) unnoticed

2 (desprevenido) unprepared, unready

\

FRASEOLOGÍA

pasar desapercibido,-a to go unnoticed

* * *

ADJ

1) (=no visto) unnoticed

marcharse desapercibido — to slip away unnoticed

pasar desapercibido — to go unnoticed

2) (=desprevenido) unprepared

* * *

- da adjetivo

pasar desapercibido — to go unnoticed

* * *

= unnoticed, unseen, unrecognised [unrecognized, -USA], unnoted, unobserved.

Ex. By retrieving and bringing together these two literatures, that implicit unstated, and perhaps unnoticed hypothesis becomes apparent.

Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Ex. It is undeniable that the ripest crop of unrecognised great inventors, long-lost heirs to dormant peerages, and assorted harmless drudges is to be gathered in the great general libraries of our major cities.

Ex. This approach draws attention to hitherto unnoted relationships among concepts.

Ex. Differentials long attributed to marital status may in part reflect previously unobserved effects of sexual orientation.

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* como un observador que pasa desapercibido = fly-on-the-wall.

* desapercibido (que pasa) = unremarked.

* pasando desapercibido = unobtrusively, unnoticeably.

* pasar desapercibido = be unnoticeable, go + unnoticed, lie + unnoticed, remain + unnoticed, slip by + unnoticed, become + unnoticeable, go + unrecognised, be an invisible fly on the wall, go + unnoted, lie + forgotten, sneak under + the radar.

* que pasa desapercibido = inconspicuous, unobserved.

* salir desapercibido = sneak out of.

* tratar de pasar desapercibido = keep + a low profile, lie + low.

* * *

- da adjetivo

pasar desapercibido — to go unnoticed

* * *

desapercibido (que pasa)

(adj.) = unremarked

Ex: Biographers will find many, hitherto undiscovered, traits of character or quirks of career of the famous or notorious emerging out of apparently insignificant or unremarked ephemera.

= unnoticed, unseen, unrecognised [unrecognized, -USA], unnoted, unobserved.

Ex: By retrieving and bringing together these two literatures, that implicit unstated, and perhaps unnoticed hypothesis becomes apparent.

Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Ex: It is undeniable that the ripest crop of unrecognised great inventors, long-lost heirs to dormant peerages, and assorted harmless drudges is to be gathered in the great general libraries of our major cities.

Ex: This approach draws attention to hitherto unnoted relationships among concepts.

Ex: Differentials long attributed to marital status may in part reflect previously unobserved effects of sexual orientation.

* como un observador que pasa desapercibido = fly-on-the-wall.

* desapercibido (que pasa) = unremarked.

* pasando desapercibido = unobtrusively, unnoticeably.

* pasar desapercibido = be unnoticeable, go + unnoticed, lie + unnoticed, remain + unnoticed, slip by + unnoticed, become + unnoticeable, go + unrecognised, be an invisible fly on the wall, go + unnoted, lie + forgotten, sneak under + the radar.

* que pasa desapercibido = inconspicuous, unobserved.

* salir desapercibido = sneak out of.

* tratar de pasar desapercibido = keep + a low profile, lie + low.

* * *

desapercibido -da

adjective

pasar desapercibido to go unnoticed

no pasó desapercibido su comentario his comment did not go unnoticed

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desapercibido
◊ -da adjetivo: pasar desapercibido to go unnoticed

desapercibido,-a adj (sin ser notado) unnoticed: intentaba pasar desapercibido, he was trying to go unnoticed

' desapercibido' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
desapercibida
English:
jump out
- slip past
- unnoticed
- unobserved
- detection
- profile
- skulk

* * *

desapercibido, -a adj

1. [inadvertido] unnoticed;

pasar desapercibido to go unnoticed;

su original obra no pasó desapercibida a los expertos the originality of her work didn't go o pass unnoticed by the critics

2. [desprevenido] unprepared, unready

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desapercibido

adj unnoticed;

pasar desapercibido go unnoticed;

pillar desapercibido a alguien catch s.o. unawares

* * *

desapercibido, -da adj

1) : unnoticed

2) desprevenido: unprepared, off guard

Spanish-English dictionary > desapercibido
11 desbordar

v.

1 to overflow, to burst (cauce, ribera).

El vaso desborda al llenarlo The glass overflows when filled.

2 to exceed.

3 to get past, to pass (contrario, defensa).

4 to surpass, to go beyond.

Esto desborda nuestras expectativas This surpasses our expectations.

5 to cause to burst its banks.

La tormenta desbordó el río The storm caused the river to burst its banks.

6 to cause to brim over.

Ricardo desbordó el vaso Richard caused the glass to brim over.

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desbordar

► verbo transitivo

1 (sobrepasar) to overflow

■ el río desbordó su cauce the river burst its banks

2 figurado (exceder) to surpass, exceed

■ eso desborda mis conocimientos that's way over my head

► verbo intransitivo

1 (salirse) to overflow

■ el río desbordó the river overflowed

► verbo pronominal desbordarse

1 (salirse) to overflow, flood

2 figurado to burst

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1. VT

1) (=rebosar)

la lluvia ha desbordado el río — the rain has caused the river to burst its banks o to overflow

la leche estuvo a punto de desbordar el cazo — the milk nearly boiled over

han desbordado la centralita con tantas llamadas — the switchboard has been inundated o overwhelmed with calls

2) (=exceder) [+ límite, previsiones] to exceed; [+ persona, tolerancia] to be beyond, be too much for

los beneficios han desbordado todas nuestras previsiones — profits have exceeded all our forecasts

su fama ha desbordado las fronteras de este país — her fame has spread far beyond this country

el trabajo me desborda — the work is just too much for me

3) [+ energía, entusiasmo] to be brimming (over) with

desborda alegría y buen humor — he's brimming (over) with happiness and good humour

4) (Mil) [+ enemigo, policía] to break through

desbordaron las líneas enemigas — they broke through enemy lines

5) (Dep) (=aventajar) to outplay

desbordaron por completo al equipo visitante — they totally outplayed the visiting team

2.

See:

desbordarse

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1.
verbo transitivo

a) ( salirse de)

el río desbordó su cauce — the river burst its banks

b) < límites> to exceed, go beyond

desborda mi capacidad de comprensión — it's quite beyond me

c) (Mil, Pol) to break through

desbordar las líneas enemigas — to break through the enemy lines

d) < persona> to overwhelm

se vio desbordado por los acontecimientos — it was all too much for him

estoy desbordada de trabajo — I'm swamped with work

esta casa me desborda — this house is too much for me to manage

e) <alegría/entusiasmo>

su cara desbordaba alegría — her face shone with joy

desbordaba entusiasmo — she was brimming with enthusiasm
2.
desbordarse v pron

a) río/canal to burst its banks

b) vaso/cubo to overflow

c) multitud to get out of hand, get out of control

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= outrun [out-run], overrun [over-run].

Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Ex. The frequency of telephone reference enquiries has overrun the ability of the reference staff to respond.

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* desbordarse = overflow.

* río + desbordarse = river + burst its banks.

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1.
verbo transitivo

a) ( salirse de)

el río desbordó su cauce — the river burst its banks

b) < límites> to exceed, go beyond

desborda mi capacidad de comprensión — it's quite beyond me

c) (Mil, Pol) to break through

desbordar las líneas enemigas — to break through the enemy lines

d) < persona> to overwhelm

se vio desbordado por los acontecimientos — it was all too much for him

estoy desbordada de trabajo — I'm swamped with work

esta casa me desborda — this house is too much for me to manage

e) <alegría/entusiasmo>

su cara desbordaba alegría — her face shone with joy

desbordaba entusiasmo — she was brimming with enthusiasm
2.
desbordarse v pron

a) río/canal to burst its banks

b) vaso/cubo to overflow

c) multitud to get out of hand, get out of control

* * *

= outrun [out-run], overrun [over-run].

Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Ex: The frequency of telephone reference enquiries has overrun the ability of the reference staff to respond.

* desbordarse = overflow.

* río + desbordarse = river + burst its banks.

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desbordar [A1 ]

vt

1

(salirse de): el río desbordó su cauce the river flooded o overflowed, the river overflowed o burst its banks

la fruta está desbordando el cesto the basket is brimming over with o overflowing with fruit

la ropa casi desborda la maleta the suitcase is bursting with clothes

2 ‹límites› to exceed, go beyond

las pérdidas han desbordado todas las previsiones losses have exceeded all forecasts

desborda mi capacidad de comprensión it's quite beyond me

3 ( Mil, Pol) to break through

desbordaron las líneas enemigas they broke through o breached the enemy lines

los manifestantes desbordaron los controles policiales the demonstrators broke o burst through the police barriers

4 ‹persona› to overwhelm

se vio desbordado por los acontecimientos he found events too much for him, he was overwhelmed by events

estoy desbordada de trabajo I'm swamped with o overloaded with o ( BrE) snowed under with work

esta casa me desborda this house is too much for me to manage

5 ‹alegría/entusiasmo›

su cara desbordaba alegría her face shone with joy

desbordaba entusiasmo she exuded o she was brimming with enthusiasm

■ desbordarse

v pron

1 «río/canal» to flood, overflow, burst o overflow its banks

2 «vaso/cubo» to overflow

el agua se desbordó de la bañera the bath overflowed

el vino se desbordó de la copa the wine spilled over the edge of the glass

3 «multitud» to get out of hand o out of control

se desbordaron los ánimos tempers flared o boiled over, things got out of hand

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desbordar
I verbo transitivo to overflow
figurado to overwhelm: este tipo de situaciones me desbordan, these situations are just too much for me
II verbo intransitivo to overflow [de, with]
' desbordar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
rebasar
- rebosar

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desbordar

♦ vt

1. [cauce, ribera] to overflow, to burst;
[recipiente] to brim over;
el río desbordó el dique the river burst the flood bank;

procura que la leche no desborde el cazo be careful not to let the milk spill over;

la basura desbordaba los contenedores the bins were overflowing with rubbish

2. [límites] to break through;

los manifestantes desbordaron el cordón policial the demonstrators broke through the police cordon

3. [previsiones, capacidad] to exceed;
[paciencia] to push beyond the limit;
la respuesta del público desbordó todas nuestras previsiones the public's response exceeded all our forecasts;

la cantidad de pedidos nos desborda we can't cope with the number of orders;

estamos desbordados de trabajo we're overwhelmed o swamped with work;

¡la ineptitud de este gobierno es algo que me desborda! this government's ineptitude is just beyond belief!

4. [pasión, sentimiento] to brim with, to overflow with;

todos desbordábamos felicidad we were all brimming with happiness;

el artículo desborda elogios the article is overflowing with praise;

su rostro desbordaba amor y ternura her face shone with love and tenderness

5. [contrario, defensa] to get past, to pass;

desbordó al portero en su salida he beat the goalkeeper as he was coming out

♦ vi

desbordar de to overflow with

♦ See also the pronominal verb desbordarse

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desbordar

I v/t

1 de río overflow, burst

2 de multitud break through

3 de acontecimiento overwhelm; fig

exceed

II v/i overflow

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desbordar vt

1) : to overflow, to spill over

2) : to surpass, to exceed

3) : to burst with, to brim with

♦ See also the reflexive verb desbordarse

* * *

desbordar vb to overflow

la basura desbordaba de los contenedores the bins were overflowing with rubbish

el río se desbordó the river overflowed its banks

Spanish-English dictionary > desbordar
12 despiadado

adj.

merciless, cruel, inhuman, cold-hearted.

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despiadado

► adjetivo

1 ruthless, merciless

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(f. - despiadada)

adj.

ruthless

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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.

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* 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.

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despiadado -da

adjective

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

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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

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despiadado, -a adj
[persona] merciless; [trato] inhuman, pitiless; [ataque] savage, merciless
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despiadado

adj ruthless

* * *

despiadado, -da adj

cruel: cruel, merciless, pitiless

♦ despiadadamente adv

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despiadado adj hard-hearted / heartless / ruthless

Spanish-English dictionary > despiadado
13 eludir

v.

1 to avoid.

eludir a la prensa to avoid the press

Elude sus responsabilidades a menudo He often avoids his responsibilities.

2 to elude, to be out of the grasp of, to be out of someone's grasp, to get out of someone's grasp.

El significado de esto elude a Ricardo The significance of this eludes Richard.

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eludir

► verbo transitivo

1 (responsabilidad, justicia, etc) to evade

2 (pregunta) to avoid, evade; (persona) to avoid

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VT

1) (=evitar) [+ problema, responsabilidad] to evade; [+ control, vigilancia] to dodge; [+ pago, impuesto] to avoid

no eludas mis preguntas — don't evade o avoid my questions

eludió pagar impuestos — he avoided paying tax

eludir el servicio militar — to avoid military service

2) [+ persona] to avoid

siempre me estás eludiendo — you're always avoiding me

logró eludir a sus perseguidores — she managed to evade her pursuers

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verbo transitivo

a) <problema/compromiso/pago> to evade, avoid

me eludió la mirada — she avoided my gaze

b) < persona> to avoid

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= bypass [by-pass], dodge, elude, escape, evade, deflect, parry, baulk [balk, -USA], fend off, steer + clear of, give + Nombre + a wide berth, duck out of, steer away from.

Ex. She repeatedly bypassed the catalog because she was an inveterate fiction reader and approached the A section of the fiction shelf expecting to find Sholom Aleichem under ALEICHEM.

Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Ex. The definition of a 'work' has eluded cataloguers for many years, and AACR2 has not found a solution.

Ex. Other words may be included in a stop-wordlist for some applications, but escape inclusion in other circumstances.

Ex. Wastage is sometimes defined as material which temporarily or permanently has evaded the usual lending procedures due to misplacement, damage, non-registration, theft or non-returns.

Ex. Questions such as 'Can I help you?' on the part of the librarian are easily deflected by a hasty, perhaps automatic and ill-considered, 'Oh, no thanks' by the user.

Ex. 'What if we got the other departments to pay for their own services and materials?' she parried, seeing a faint ray of hope in the idea.

Ex. While many scholars concede that military interventions are sometimes permissible, they balk when it comes to deciding whether they are ever a moral duty.

Ex. During the rutting season, they are used to fend off other males in an attempt to gather a harem of females to breed with.

Ex. This entire target market has steered clear of the public library.

Ex. Under the new law, motorists must give 'a wide berth' to stationary emergency vehicles displaying blue, red, or amber emergency warning lights.

Ex. There's no polite way to duck out of a dinner party.

Ex. This article gives guidance for steering away from some of the more obvious pitfalls when buying software.

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* agacharse para eludir = duck out of + harm's way.

* eludir la necesidad de = bypass + the need (for).

* eludir responsabilidad = pass + the buck.

* eludirse = duck away.

* eludir una cuestión = dodge + issue.

* eludir una obligación = duck + an obligation.

* eludir una oposición = negotiate + resistance.

* eludir una responsabilidad = shirk + responsibility.

* * *

verbo transitivo

a) <problema/compromiso/pago> to evade, avoid

me eludió la mirada — she avoided my gaze

b) < persona> to avoid

* * *

= bypass [by-pass], dodge, elude, escape, evade, deflect, parry, baulk [balk, -USA], fend off, steer + clear of, give + Nombre + a wide berth, duck out of, steer away from.

Ex: She repeatedly bypassed the catalog because she was an inveterate fiction reader and approached the A section of the fiction shelf expecting to find Sholom Aleichem under ALEICHEM.

Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Ex: The definition of a 'work' has eluded cataloguers for many years, and AACR2 has not found a solution.

Ex: Other words may be included in a stop-wordlist for some applications, but escape inclusion in other circumstances.

Ex: Wastage is sometimes defined as material which temporarily or permanently has evaded the usual lending procedures due to misplacement, damage, non-registration, theft or non-returns.

Ex: Questions such as 'Can I help you?' on the part of the librarian are easily deflected by a hasty, perhaps automatic and ill-considered, 'Oh, no thanks' by the user.

Ex: 'What if we got the other departments to pay for their own services and materials?' she parried, seeing a faint ray of hope in the idea.

Ex: While many scholars concede that military interventions are sometimes permissible, they balk when it comes to deciding whether they are ever a moral duty.

Ex: During the rutting season, they are used to fend off other males in an attempt to gather a harem of females to breed with.

Ex: This entire target market has steered clear of the public library.

Ex: Under the new law, motorists must give 'a wide berth' to stationary emergency vehicles displaying blue, red, or amber emergency warning lights.

Ex: There's no polite way to duck out of a dinner party.

Ex: This article gives guidance for steering away from some of the more obvious pitfalls when buying software.

* agacharse para eludir = duck out of + harm's way.

* eludir la necesidad de = bypass + the need (for).

* eludir responsabilidad = pass + the buck.

* eludirse = duck away.

* eludir una cuestión = dodge + issue.

* eludir una obligación = duck + an obligation.

* eludir una oposición = negotiate + resistance.

* eludir una responsabilidad = shirk + responsibility.

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eludir [I1 ]

vt

1 ‹problema› to evade, avoid, dodge; ‹pago› to avoid, evade

un compromiso que no puedes eludir an obligation which you can't evade o duck

eludió la persecución de la policía she escaped from o she avoided capture by her police pursuers

me eludió la mirada she avoided my gaze, she avoided looking me in the eye

2 ‹persona› to avoid

me ha estado eludiendo toda la semana she's been avoiding o dodging me all week

consiguió eludir a los periodistas he managed to avoid o elude the reporters

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eludir ( conjugate eludir) verbo transitivo
a) ‹problema/compromiso/pago› to evade, avoid

b) ‹ persona› to avoid

eludir verbo transitivo to avoid
' eludir' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
capear
- desentenderse
- evitar
English:
avoid
- dodge
- duck
- elude
- evade
- fend off
- skirt
- berth
- bypass
- divert
- fend
- get
- parry
- shirk
- side

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eludir vt

1. [evitar] [compromiso, responsabilidad] to avoid, to evade;
[problema, dificultad, tema] to avoid; [pregunta] to evade, to avoid, to dodge;
eludir el pago de una deuda to avoid paying a debt;

eludir al fisco to avoid paying taxes;

eludir el servicio militar to avoid o get out of doing military service;

eludió hacer declaraciones he avoided making any statement;

eludió su mirada she avoided his eyes

2. [perseguidores]
eludir a to avoid, to evade;

consiguió eludir a la policía he managed to avoid the police;
Der
eludir la acción de la justicia to escape justice

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eludir

v/t evade, avoid

* * *

eludir vt

evadir: to evade, to avoid, to elude

* * *

eludir vb to avoid

Spanish-English dictionary > eludir
14 enfriarse

enfriarse

► verbo pronominal

1 (lo demasiado caliente) to cool down; (ponerse demasiado frío) to go cold, get cold

■ déjalo enfriar, está muy caliente let it cool down, it's too hot

■ se te enfría la sopa your soup is getting cold

2 (tener frío) to get cold; (resfriarse) to catch a cold, get a cold

3 figurado to cool off

* * *

1) to cool down

2) catch a cold

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VPR

1) (=refrescarse) [alimentos] [lo suficiente] to cool down, cool off; [demasiado] to get cold

déjalo que se enfríe — leave it to cool (down)

se te va a enfriar el café — your coffee's going to get cold

2) (=perder fuerza) [pasión] to cool off; [entusiasmo, relaciones] to cool

3) (Med) to catch a chill

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(v.) = cool off, lapse, cool down, go + cold turkey, catch + a chill, grow + cold, get + cold feet

Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he would often hide in some nook of the station to save the fare, or riding, if necessary, till things cooled off and the world above became habitable again.

Ex. The first weeks are vital, and after that the shop must be constantly on the lookout for ways of stimulating further interest and re-awakening those who lapse.

Ex. The samples were then fried in palm oil for 5 min and then left to cool down for 0, 1, 3 or 6 min.

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. Researchers into the common cold say ' catching a chill' really does help colds develop -- and are advising to 'wrap up warm' to keep viruses at bay.

Ex. She had lived alone, except for her dog who, at the very last, sat patiently beside the bed and licked her hands until they grew cold.

Ex. The important thing is to be true to yourself, but should you get cold feet at the eleventh hour remember that there could be serious financial implications as well as emotional ones.

* * *

(v.) = cool off, lapse, cool down, go + cold turkey, catch + a chill, grow + cold, get + cold feet

Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he would often hide in some nook of the station to save the fare, or riding, if necessary, till things cooled off and the world above became habitable again.

Ex: The first weeks are vital, and after that the shop must be constantly on the lookout for ways of stimulating further interest and re-awakening those who lapse.

Ex: The samples were then fried in palm oil for 5 min and then left to cool down for 0, 1, 3 or 6 min.

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: Researchers into the common cold say ' catching a chill' really does help colds develop -- and are advising to 'wrap up warm' to keep viruses at bay.

Ex: She had lived alone, except for her dog who, at the very last, sat patiently beside the bed and licked her hands until they grew cold.

Ex: The important thing is to be true to yourself, but should you get cold feet at the eleventh hour remember that there could be serious financial implications as well as emotional ones.

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■enfriarse verbo reflexivo
1 to get o go cold
2 (coger un resfriado) to get o catch a cold
3 (el entusiasmo) to cool down
' enfriarse' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
enfriar
English:
cool
- cool down
- cool off
- get
- grow

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vpr

1. [líquido] [quedarse suficientemente frío] to cool down;

deja que se enfríe un poco el café let the coffee cool down a bit

2. [líquido] [quedarse demasiado frío] to go cold;

se te va a enfriarse la sopa your soup is going to get cold

3. [situación, relación, sentimiento] to cool down

4. [coger frío] to get cold;
[resfriarse] to catch a chill;
enseguida se me enfrían las manos my hands get cold straight away

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enfriarse

v/r

1 ( perder calor) cool down; ( perder demasiado calor) get cold, go cold; fig

cool, cool off

2 MED catch a cold, catch a chill

* * *

vr

: to get chilled, to catch a cold

* * *

enfriarse vb to go cold

Spanish-English dictionary > enfriarse
15 escondrijo

m.

1 hiding place.

2 hiding-place, hideaway, hide-out, den.

3 hidden recess, hidden place, recess.

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escondrijo

► nombre masculino

1 hiding place

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noun m.

hiding place

* * *

SM (=escondite) hiding place, hideout; (=rincón poco visible) nook

* * *

masculino hidden place, recess (liter)

* * *

= nook, hideout, hiding, hiding hole, hideaway.

Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he would often hide in some nook of the station to save the fare.

Ex. Seditious books continued to appear, nevertheless, both from secret presses in England moving furtively from hideout to hideout.

Ex. He is hounded by hired assassins and eventually flushed out of hiding for a final confrontation with his nemesis.

Ex. He was to remain in his refuge for one hundred and twenty-one days, an urban Robinson Crusoe, venturing forth from his hiding hole to retrieve salvageable materials from the jettisoned impedimenta of restless travelers.

Ex. This the perfect hideaway for newlyweds.

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masculino hidden place, recess (liter)

* * *

= nook, hideout, hiding, hiding hole, hideaway.

Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he would often hide in some nook of the station to save the fare.

Ex: Seditious books continued to appear, nevertheless, both from secret presses in England moving furtively from hideout to hideout.

Ex: He is hounded by hired assassins and eventually flushed out of hiding for a final confrontation with his nemesis.

Ex: He was to remain in his refuge for one hundred and twenty-one days, an urban Robinson Crusoe, venturing forth from his hiding hole to retrieve salvageable materials from the jettisoned impedimenta of restless travelers.

Ex: This the perfect hideaway for newlyweds.

* * *

escondrijo

masculine

hidden place, recess ( liter)

* * *

escondrijo sustantivo masculino
hidden place, recess (liter)
escondrijo sustantivo masculino hiding place
' escondrijo' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
escondite
English:
hide-out
- hiding

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escondrijo nm

hiding place

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escondrijo

m hiding place

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escondrijo nm

escondite: hiding place

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escondrijo n hiding place

Spanish-English dictionary > escondrijo
16 esquivar

v.

1 to avoid.

2 to dodge, to evade, to duck, to fend off.

Luis capeó el problema Louis dodged the problem.

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esquivar

► verbo transitivo

1 (persona) to avoid, shun

2 (golpe) to dodge, elude

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verb

1) to dodge

2) avoid

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1.

VT (=evitar) to avoid, shun; (=evadir) to dodge, side-step

esquivar un golpe — to dodge a blow

esquivar el contacto con algn — to avoid meeting sb

esquivar hacer algo — to avoid doing sth, be chary of doing sth

2.

See:

esquivarse

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verbo transitivo < persona> to avoid; <golpe/pregunta> to dodge, evade; <problema/dificultad> to avoid; < responsabilidad> to avoid, evade

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= dodge, eschew, skate over, parry, skirt, fend off, steer + clear of, give + Nombre + a wide berth, steer away from.

Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Ex. However, most contributors to the debate about the future of SLIS have eschewed practicalities in favour of sweeping and dramatic generalizations.

Ex. I'm sorry; I didn't wish to skate over that.

Ex. 'What if we got the other departments to pay for their own services and materials?' she parried, seeing a faint ray of hope in the idea.

Ex. Bridleways that cross arable land may be legally ploughed up, but not those that skirt a field.

Ex. During the rutting season, they are used to fend off other males in an attempt to gather a harem of females to breed with.

Ex. This entire target market has steered clear of the public library.

Ex. Under the new law, motorists must give 'a wide berth' to stationary emergency vehicles displaying blue, red, or amber emergency warning lights.

Ex. This article gives guidance for steering away from some of the more obvious pitfalls when buying software.

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* esquivar el problema = sidestep + the problem.

* esquivar la cuestión = sidestep + the issue.

* esquivar la mirada de Alguien = avert + Posesivo + eyes.

* esquivar una cuestión = dodge + issue.

* esquivar un problema = duck + issue.

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verbo transitivo < persona> to avoid; <golpe/pregunta> to dodge, evade; <problema/dificultad> to avoid; < responsabilidad> to avoid, evade

* * *

= dodge, eschew, skate over, parry, skirt, fend off, steer + clear of, give + Nombre + a wide berth, steer away from.

Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Ex: However, most contributors to the debate about the future of SLIS have eschewed practicalities in favour of sweeping and dramatic generalizations.

Ex: I'm sorry; I didn't wish to skate over that.

Ex: 'What if we got the other departments to pay for their own services and materials?' she parried, seeing a faint ray of hope in the idea.

Ex: Bridleways that cross arable land may be legally ploughed up, but not those that skirt a field.

Ex: During the rutting season, they are used to fend off other males in an attempt to gather a harem of females to breed with.

Ex: This entire target market has steered clear of the public library.

Ex: Under the new law, motorists must give 'a wide berth' to stationary emergency vehicles displaying blue, red, or amber emergency warning lights.

Ex: This article gives guidance for steering away from some of the more obvious pitfalls when buying software.

* esquivar el problema = sidestep + the problem.

* esquivar la cuestión = sidestep + the issue.

* esquivar la mirada de Alguien = avert + Posesivo + eyes.

* esquivar una cuestión = dodge + issue.

* esquivar un problema = duck + issue.

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esquivar [A1 ]

vt

1 ‹persona› to avoid

2 ‹golpe› to dodge, evade; ‹pregunta› to avoid, dodge, sidestep

intentaron esquivar el tema they tried to dodge o evade the issue

3 ‹problema/dificultad› to avoid; ‹responsabilidad› to avoid, evade

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esquivar ( conjugate esquivar) verbo transitivo ‹persona/problema/dificultad› to avoid;
‹golpe/pregunta› to dodge, evade;
‹ responsabilidad› to avoid, evade
esquivar verbo transitivo
1 (un obstáculo, golpe) to dodge: menos mal que pudo esquivar el árbol que había caído en la carretera, luckily he was able to dodge the tree that had fallen across the road
2 (a una persona) to avoid, dodge: me está esquivando, he's avoiding me
' esquivar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
burlar
- cuneta
- huir
- esquinazo
English:
dodge
- elude
- fend off
- sidestep
- way
- avoid
- divert
- duck
- fend
- fudge
- side

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esquivar vt

1. [golpe] to dodge;
[valla, obstáculo] to clear;
trató de esquivar al perro para no atropellarlo he tried to avoid the dog so as not to knock it down

2. [persona, discusión, tema] to avoid;
[pregunta] to evade, to dodge; [compromiso, responsabilidad] to evade, to get out of; [problema, inconveniente] to avoid, to get round
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esquivar

v/t avoid, dodge fam

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esquivar vt

1) evadir: to dodge, to evade

2) evitar: to avoid

* * *

esquivar vb

1. (golpe) to dodge

2. (persona) to avoid

Spanish-English dictionary > esquivar
17 evadir

v.

1 to evade (impuestos).

2 to avoid, to dodge, to duck, to elude.

El ladrón burló la seguridad The thief evaded the security measures.

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evadir

► verbo transitivo

1 (peligro, respuesta) to avoid; (responsabilidad) to shirk

2 (capital, impuestos) to evade

► verbo pronominal evadirse

1 (escaparse) to escape

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1. VT

1) [+ problema] to evade, avoid

2) (Econ) [+ impuestos] to evade; [+ dinero] to pass, get away with

2.

See:

evadirse

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1.
verbo transitivo

1) <dificultad/peligro/responsabilidad> to avoid, evade; < pregunta> to avoid, sidestep; < tema> to dodge, evade

logró evadir el cerco policial — he managed to get past the police cordon

2) < impuestos> to evade
2.
evadirse v pron

a) preso to escape

b)

evadirse de algo — de responsabilidad/problema to run away from something; de la realidad to escape from something

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= dodge, evade, skate over, weasel (on/out of), duck out, welsh on.

Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Ex. Wastage is sometimes defined as material which temporarily or permanently has evaded the usual lending procedures due to misplacement, damage, non-registration, theft or non-returns.

Ex. I'm sorry; I didn't wish to skate over that.

Ex. Christians have of course been weaseling on this issue since Jesus himself evasively weaseled on it.

Ex. Everyone and their mother (literally) will be ducking out from work early today to be with their nearest and dearest for the long weekend.

Ex. I am afraid that double dealer Brookenfuehrer has welshed on the deal.

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* evadir la realidad = escape + reality.

* evadirse = break out.

* evadirse de la realidad = escape + reality.

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1.
verbo transitivo

1) <dificultad/peligro/responsabilidad> to avoid, evade; < pregunta> to avoid, sidestep; < tema> to dodge, evade

logró evadir el cerco policial — he managed to get past the police cordon

2) < impuestos> to evade
2.
evadirse v pron

a) preso to escape

b)

evadirse de algo — de responsabilidad/problema to run away from something; de la realidad to escape from something

* * *

= dodge, evade, skate over, weasel (on/out of), duck out, welsh on.

Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.

Ex: Wastage is sometimes defined as material which temporarily or permanently has evaded the usual lending procedures due to misplacement, damage, non-registration, theft or non-returns.

Ex: I'm sorry; I didn't wish to skate over that.

Ex: Christians have of course been weaseling on this issue since Jesus himself evasively weaseled on it.

Ex: Everyone and their mother (literally) will be ducking out from work early today to be with their nearest and dearest for the long weekend.

Ex: I am afraid that double dealer Brookenfuehrer has welshed on the deal.

* evadir la realidad = escape + reality.

* evadirse = break out.

* evadirse de la realidad = escape + reality.

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evadir [I1 ]

vt

A ‹dificultad/peligro/problema› to avoid, evade; ‹responsabilidad› to avoid, shirk; ‹pregunta› to avoid, sidestep

logró evadir el cerco policial he managed to get past the police cordon

intentando evadir a los periodistas in an attempt to avoid the journalists

B ‹impuestos› to evade

■ evadirse

v pron

1 «preso» to escape

2 evadirse DE algo ‹de una responsabilidad/un problema› to escape FROM sth

para evadirse de la realidad to escape from reality

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evadir ( conjugate evadir) verbo transitivo
a) ‹pregunta/peligro/responsabilidad› to avoid;

‹ tema› to dodge, evade
b) ‹ impuestos› to evade

evadirse verbo pronominal
a) [ preso] to escape

b) evadirse de algo ‹de responsabilidad/problema› to run away from sth;

‹ de la realidad› to escape from sth
evadir verbo transitivo
1 (dificultad, tarea) to shirk, avoid
2 (dinero, impuestos) to evade
' evadir' also found in these entries:
English:
dodge
- evade
- duck

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evadir

♦ vt

1. [problema, peligro, tema] to avoid;
[compromiso, responsabilidad] to avoid, to evade
2. [divisas, impuestos] to evade

♦ See also the pronominal verb evadirse

* * *

evadir

v/t avoid; impuestos evade

* * *

evadir vt

eludir: to evade, to avoid

♦ See also the reflexive verb evadirse

* * *

evadir vb (pregunta) to avoid

Spanish-English dictionary > evadir
18 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.

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feroz

► adjetivo (pl feroces)

1 fierce, ferocious

\

FRASEOLOGÍA

el lobo feroz the big bad wolf

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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

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adjetivo

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)

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= 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.

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* crítica feroz = hatchet job.

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adjetivo

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.

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feroz

adjective

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)

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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

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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

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feroz

adj fierce; ( cruel) cruel

* * *

feroz adj, pl feroces fiero: ferocious, fierce

♦ ferozmente adv

* * *

feroz adj fierce / ferocious

los lobos son animales feroces wolves are fierce animals

Spanish-English dictionary > feroz
19 hacerse habitable

(v.) = become + habitable

Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he would often hide in some nook of the station to save the fare, or riding, if necessary, till things cooled off and the world above became habitable again.

* * *

(v.) = become + habitable

Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he would often hide in some nook of the station to save the fare, or riding, if necessary, till things cooled off and the world above became habitable again.

Spanish-English dictionary > hacerse habitable
20 implacable

adj.

implacable, relentless.

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implacable

► adjetivo

1 implacable, relentless

* * *

adj.

relentless

* * *

ADJ implacable, relentless

* * *

adjetivo

a) <odio/furia> implacable; <avance/lucha> relentless; < sol> relentless

el paso implacable del tiempo — the inexorable passage of time

b) <juez/crítico> implacable

c) <enemigo/contrincante> ruthless

* * *

= unrelenting, relentless, ruthless, remorseless, unforgiving, bitter, implacable, inexorable, nagging, unsparing, cutthroat.

Nota: Adjetivo.

Ex. Unrelenting tuition increases are pricing private institutions out of the reach of many middle-class parents.

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 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. Unlike other Swedish illustrators, he used the time consuming and unforgiving technique of wood engraving for his illustrations.

Ex. The author notes the work of Melvyl Dewey in espousing library education and the bitter opposition from some library leaders.

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. With inflated prices, the nagging question was whether consumers were being bilked by the market.

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. 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.

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* actuar de un modo implacable = play + hardball.

* ser implacable = play + hardball.

* * *

adjetivo

a) <odio/furia> implacable; <avance/lucha> relentless; < sol> relentless

el paso implacable del tiempo — the inexorable passage of time

b) <juez/crítico> implacable

c) <enemigo/contrincante> ruthless

* * *

= unrelenting, relentless, ruthless, remorseless, unforgiving, bitter, implacable, inexorable, nagging, unsparing, cutthroat.

Nota: Adjetivo.

Ex: Unrelenting tuition increases are pricing private institutions out of the reach of many middle-class parents.

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 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: Unlike other Swedish illustrators, he used the time consuming and unforgiving technique of wood engraving for his illustrations.

Ex: The author notes the work of Melvyl Dewey in espousing library education and the bitter opposition from some library leaders.

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: With inflated prices, the nagging question was whether consumers were being bilked by the market.

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: 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.

* actuar de un modo implacable = play + hardball.

* ser implacable = play + hardball.

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implacable

adjective

1 ‹odio/furia› implacable; ‹avance/lucha› relentless

el implacable sol del mediodía the relentless midday sun

el paso implacable del tiempo the inexorable passage of time

2 ‹juez/crítico› implacable

es implacable cuando se trata de corregir errores de ortografía she is unforgiving o uncompromising when it comes to correcting spelling mistakes

3 ‹enemigo/contrincante› ruthless

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implacable adjetivo
a) ‹odio/furia› implacable;

‹avance/lucha› relentless;
‹ sol› relentless
b) ‹juez/crítico› implacable

c) ‹enemigo/contrincante› ruthless

implacable adjetivo relentless, implacable
' implacable' also found in these entries:
English:
bitter
- fierce
- persecution
- pitiless
- relentless
- remorseless
- unrelenting
- hard
- implacable
- ruthless
- unyielding

* * *

implacable adj

1. [odio, ira] implacable;
[sol] relentless; [clima] harsh;
el implacable avance del desierto the relentless o inexorable advance of the desert

2. [persona] inflexible, firm;

es implacable con sus alumnos she's very hard on her pupils

3. [incontestable] unassailable;

un argumento de una lógica implacable an argument of unassailable logic

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implacable

adj implacable

* * *

implacable adj

: implacable, relentless

♦ implacablemente adv

Spanish-English dictionary > implacable

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