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1 mortificar
v.to mortify.Su actitud aspaba a María His attitude mortified Mary.* * *1 to mortify* * *1. VT1) (=atormentar) to torment, plague2) (=humillar) to humiliate3) (Rel)4) (Med) to damage seriously2.See:* * *1.verbo transitivoa) ( atormentar) to tormentlos celos lo mortifican — he's tortured o tormented by jealousy
b) (Relig) to mortify2.mortificarse v pron (refl) ( atormentarse) to fret, distress oneself; (Relig) to mortify the flesh* * *= chagrin, spite, torture, eat away at, mortify.Ex. In the course of my explanation I became not only chagrined, but ashamed for our profession and for how, in this particular case, rules had made finding the material that this person wanted so difficult.Ex. Men's abuse of children is in many instances instrumental in order to coerce or retaliate against women, echoing the Greek myth of Medea who killed her own children to spite her father.Ex. They tortured her into revealing her Pin number and safe code before cutting her up and disposing of her in bin liners.Ex. Rather than catalog departments going out of business, they could turn their attention once again to cataloging special local materials, eating away at store-rooms of uncataloged materials, and making their collections as a whole more responsive to their local constituency.Ex. We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.----* conciencia + mortificar = conscience + smite, conscience + trouble.* * *1.verbo transitivoa) ( atormentar) to tormentlos celos lo mortifican — he's tortured o tormented by jealousy
b) (Relig) to mortify2.mortificarse v pron (refl) ( atormentarse) to fret, distress oneself; (Relig) to mortify the flesh* * *= chagrin, spite, torture, eat away at, mortify.Ex: In the course of my explanation I became not only chagrined, but ashamed for our profession and for how, in this particular case, rules had made finding the material that this person wanted so difficult.
Ex: Men's abuse of children is in many instances instrumental in order to coerce or retaliate against women, echoing the Greek myth of Medea who killed her own children to spite her father.Ex: They tortured her into revealing her Pin number and safe code before cutting her up and disposing of her in bin liners.Ex: Rather than catalog departments going out of business, they could turn their attention once again to cataloging special local materials, eating away at store-rooms of uncataloged materials, and making their collections as a whole more responsive to their local constituency.Ex: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.* conciencia + mortificar = conscience + smite, conscience + trouble.* * *mortificar [A2 ]vt1(atormentar): los celos lo mortifican he's tortured o tormented by jealousyme mortifica tener que recordarle el dinero que me debe I feel awful about having to remind him about the money he owes melos mosquitos la mortificaron toda la noche she was tormented by mosquitos all nightdeja de mortificar al gato stop torturing o tormenting the cat2 ( Relig) to mortify( refl)1 (atormentarse) to fret, distress oneselfno te mortifiques por esa tontería don't distress yourself o fret over such a stupid little thing2 ( Relig) to mortify the flesh* * *
mortificar ( conjugate mortificar) verbo transitivo
◊ los celos lo mortifican he's tortured o tormented by jealousyb) (Relig) to mortify
mortificarse verbo pronominal ( refl) ( atormentarse) to fret, distress oneself;
(Relig) to mortify the flesh
mortificar vtr, mortificarse verbo reflexivo to mortify, fret: no merece la pena mortificarse por algo que no se puede evitar, it's not worth fretting over something you couldn't prevent from happening
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mortificarse
* * *♦ vt1. [el cuerpo] to mortify2. [angustiar, molestar] to torment;el recuerdo del accidente lo mortifica he is tormented by the memory of the accident* * *v/t torment* * *mortificar {72} vt1) : to mortify2) torturar: to trouble, to torment -
2 prigioniero
m, prigioniera f prisonerfare prigioniero take prisoner* * *prigioniero agg. imprisoned: essere prigioniero del nemico, to be a prisoner of the enemy; essere prigioniero di una banda di sequestratori, to be held captive by a gang of kidnappers; rimase prigioniero nell'ascensore, (estens.) he was trapped in the lift; un canarino prigioniero in gabbia, (estens.) a canary imprisoned in a cage; vivere prigioniero dei propri pregiudizi, (fig.) to be a prisoner of one's own prejudices◆ s.m. prisoner, captive: prigioniero di guerra, prisoner of war; fare, esser fatto prigioniero, to take, to be taken prisoner; lo scambio dei prigionieri, the exchange of prisoners; dichiararsi prigioniero politico, to declare oneself a political prisoner.* * *[pridʒo'njɛro] prigioniero (-a)1. agg2. sm/ffare/tenere qn prigioniero — to take/hold sb prisoner
* * *[pridʒo'njɛro] 1.aggettivo captive, imprisoned2.sostantivo maschile (f. -a) captive, prisonerfare, tenere qcn. prigioniero — to take, hold sb. captive o prisoner
prigioniero politico — political prisoner o detainee
* * *prigioniero/pridʒo'njεro/captive, imprisoned(f. -a) captive, prisoner; fare, tenere qcn. prigioniero to take, hold sb. captive o prisoner -
3 prigioniero
[pridʒo'njɛro] prigioniero (-a)1. agg2. sm/ffare/tenere qn prigioniero — to take/hold sb prisoner
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