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1 crueldad
f.1 cruelty.2 act of cruelty.3 cruel act, cruelty.* * *1 cruelty2 (dureza) harshness, severity* * *noun f.* * *SF1) (=cualidad) cruelty2) (=acción) cruelty¡es una crueldad! — that's so cruel!, it's such a cruel thing to do o say!
* * *femenino cruelty* * *= cruelty, callousness, ruthlessness, inhumanity.Ex. Cruelty TO CHILDREN is quite clearly child abuse.Ex. Lack of proper self-evaluation may explain both their callousness and their imprudence = La falta de una autoevaluación adecuada puede explicar su insensibilidad e imprudencia.Ex. Aggression and ruthlessness are inappropriate in this context: the librarian must be sensitive to the realities of power and influence and be able to present library issues in a manner that demonstrates their importance to the academic community.Ex. Humanism is seen as the last best way to combat inhumanity & injustice.* * *femenino cruelty* * *= cruelty, callousness, ruthlessness, inhumanity.Ex: Cruelty TO CHILDREN is quite clearly child abuse.
Ex: Lack of proper self-evaluation may explain both their callousness and their imprudence = La falta de una autoevaluación adecuada puede explicar su insensibilidad e imprudencia.Ex: Aggression and ruthlessness are inappropriate in this context: the librarian must be sensitive to the realities of power and influence and be able to present library issues in a manner that demonstrates their importance to the academic community.Ex: Humanism is seen as the last best way to combat inhumanity & injustice.* * *1 (cualidad) crueltyes difícil imaginar la crueldad con que los trataban it's hard to imagine just how cruelly they were treated2 (acción) crueltylas crueldades cometidas durante la guerra the cruelties o atrocities committed during the wares una crueldad privar a estos animales de su libertad it's cruel o it's cruelty to deprive these animals of their freedomCompuesto:mental cruelty* * *
crueldad sustantivo femenino
cruelty;
crueldad mental mental cruelty
crueldad sustantivo femenino cruelty
' crueldad' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
acusar
- sadismo
- saña
English:
ASPCA
- cruelty
- dearly
- heartlessness
- viciously
- wanton
- inhumanity
* * *crueldad nf1. [de persona, acción] cruelty;mostró una crueldad inusitada he displayed extraordinary cruelty2. [acción cruel] act of cruelty;es una crueldad abandonar animales it's cruel to abandon animals3. [del clima] harshness* * *f cruelty* * *crueldad nf: cruelty* * *crueldad n cruelty -
2 ensañarse
* * *VPRensañarse con o en — to treat brutally
* * *verbo pronominalensañarse con alguien: se ensañaron con los prisioneros they showed the prisoners no mercy o pity; no te ensañes con él — don't take it out on him (colloq)
* * *----* ensañarse con = go to + town on, lash out (on), take it out on.* * *verbo pronominalensañarse con alguien: se ensañaron con los prisioneros they showed the prisoners no mercy o pity; no te ensañes con él — don't take it out on him (colloq)
* * ** ensañarse con = go to + town on, lash out (on), take it out on.* * *ensañarse [A1 ]ensañarse CON algn:se ensañaron con los prisioneros they showed the prisoners no mercy o pity, they treated the prisoners mercilessly o with great crueltyse ensañaba con cualquier empleado que estuviera cerca he used to vent his anger o fury o frustration on any employee who happened to be on handno te ensañes con él, la culpa no es toda suya don't take it out on him, it's not all his fault ( colloq)* * *
ensañarse ( conjugate ensañarse) verbo pronominal:◊ se ensañaron con los prisioneros they showed the prisoners no mercy o pity;
no te ensañes con él don't take it out on him (colloq)
■ensañarse verbo reflexivo to show no mercy, to take sadistic delight in sthg
' ensañarse' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
cebarse
* * *ensañarse vprensañarse con alguien to torment sb, to treat sb cruelly;se ensañó con el pobre animal she really laid into the poor creature;la prensa amarilla se ensañó con ella the gutter press tore her apart* * *v/r show no mercy ( con to)* * *ensañarse vr: to act cruelly, to be merciless -
3 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
' mortificar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
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 -
4 ensangrentarse
1 to get stained with blood, be covered with blood* * *ensangrentarse con o contra — to be cruel to, treat cruelly
* * *vprto become bloodstained
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