estrellarse

estrellarse

► verbo pronominal

1 (llenarse de estrellas) to be full of stars

2 (hacerse pedazos) to smash, shatter

■ el vaso se estrelló contra el suelo the glass smashed against the floor

3 (chocar) to crash

■ el camión se estrelló contra el muro the lorry crashed into the wall

4 figurado (problema, dificultad) to come up against, run into

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to crash

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VPR

1) (=chocar) to smash, crash

el coche se estrelló contra el muro — the car smashed o crashed into the wall

2) [proyecto, plan] to fail

estrellarse con o contra algo — to be thwarted by sth

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= crash.

Ex. It doesn't take a wild imagination to grasp what happens to a rider who crashes with protective gear on and one who goes down in street clothes.

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= crash.

Ex: It doesn't take a wild imagination to grasp what happens to a rider who crashes with protective gear on and one who goes down in street clothes.

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■estrellarse verbo reflexivo
1 Auto Av (chocar) to crash [contra, into]: se estrelló con el coche, she had a crash in her car
2 (fallar estrepitosamente) to founder, fail: me estrellé en la prueba de matemáticas, I failed the mathematics exam
'estrellarse' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
estrellar
English:
crash
- pile into
- smash
- go
- pile
- plow

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vpr

1. [chocar] [objeto] to smash (contra against); [avión, vehículo] to crash (contra into);

nos estrellamos con la moto we crashed the motorbike;

se estrelló contra la oposición de su jefe he ran smack into his boss's opposition

2. [fracasar] to fail;

se estrelló con su última película his last film was a disaster o a total flop

3. [cubrirse de estrellas] to fill with stars

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estrellarse

v/r crash (contra into)

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vr

: to crash, to collide

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estrellarse vb to crash

se estrelló contra un árbol he crashed into a tree