esquilmar

v.

1 to overexploit (recursos).

2 to harvest.

Esquilmaron el maíz They harvested the corn.

3 to swindle, to acquire by deception, to acquire by trickery, to cheat.

Esquilmaron a ese pobre hombre They swindled that poor man.

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esquilmar

► verbo transitivo

1 (cosecha etc) to harvest

2 figurado (agotar) to exhaust

3 figurado (abusar) to fleece

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VT

1) [+ cosecha] to harvest

2) [+ tierra] to impoverish, exhaust

3) * [+ jugador] to skin *

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verbo transitivo

1) (Agr) to harvest

2) <riquezas/recursos> to exhaust; <fortuna> to squander; <persona> to suck ... dry

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= fleece, take + Nombre + to the cleaners.

Ex. Roosevelt's measures to prevent big business fleecing the public were popular and the election of 1904 provided him with the chance to run for president in his own right.

Ex. Let me guess ... you work in an all male workplace full of divorced men whose wives took them to the cleaners?.

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verbo transitivo

1) (Agr) to harvest

2) <riquezas/recursos> to exhaust; <fortuna> to squander; <persona> to suck ... dry

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= fleece, take + Nombre + to the cleaners.

Ex: Roosevelt's measures to prevent big business fleecing the public were popular and the election of 1904 provided him with the chance to run for president in his own right.

Ex: Let me guess ... you work in an all male workplace full of divorced men whose wives took them to the cleaners?.

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esquilmar [A1 ]

vt

A (Agr) to harvest

B

1 ‹riquezas/recursos› to exhaust; ‹fortuna› to squander

2 ‹persona› to suck … dry

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esquilmar verbo transitivo
1 Agr to harvest
2 (riquezas) to exhaust, impoverish: tantas cosechas acaban por esquilmar la tierra, after so many harvests, the land will become exhausted

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esquilmar vt

1. [terreno, campo de cultivo] to exhaust, overcultivate;

[recursos, riqueza natural] to overexploit; [bancos de pescado] to deplete

2. [fortuna, herencia] to squander

3. [persona]

esquilmar a alguien to milk o bleed sb dry

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esquilmar

v/t

1 fuente de riqueza overexploit

2 a alguien suck dry