estrujar

v.

1 to squeeze.

Estrujamos la ropa mojada We squeezed the wet clothes.

2 to squeeze (persona, mano).

me estrujó un pie he squashed my foot

¡no me estrujes! don't squash o crush me!

3 to bleed dry (sacar partido).

4 to extrude.

Estrujaron comida para perros They extruded dog food.

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estrujar

► verbo transitivo

1 (exprimir) to squeeze

2 (apretar - alguien) to crush; (- algo) to screw up

■ casi le estrujaron en el ascensor they almost crushed him in the lift

■ estrujó el papel she screwed the paper up

3 (ropa) to wring

4 figurado (sacar partido) to drain, bleed dry

► verbo pronominal estrujarse

1 (apretujarse) to crowd, throng

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FRASEOLOGÍA

estrujarse los sesos / estrujarse el cerebro familiar to rack one's brains

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verb

1) to squeeze

2) press

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1. VT

1) (=exprimir) to squeeze

2) (=apretar) to press

3) (=escurrir) [+ bayeta, trapo] to wring

4) (=aprovecharse de) to drain, bleed white

2.

See:

estrujarse

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verbo transitivo

1)

a) (apretar arrugando) <papel> to crumple up, scrunch up; <tela> to crumple (up)

b) (para escurrir) to wring (out)

c) <uvas> to press

2) <persona> to squeeze, hold ... tightly

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= squeeze, extrude, wring.

Ex. Squeezed between the upper and nether milestones of increasing demand and dwindling resources, individual librarians develop ways in which to make their jobs easier.

Ex. In theory, at least, information provision has always been seen as an integral part of the library service, but in practice this had tended to become extruded to the point of non-existence by the time it reaches the smaller rural branches and mobile libraries = En teoría, al menos, la difusión de la información siempre se ha visto como una parte integral del servicio bibliotecario, aunque en la práctica se ha tendido a forzarla hasta el punto de su inexistencia cuando llega a las bibliotecas sucursales rurales más pequeñas y a las bibliotecas móviles.

Ex. The statue depicted a nymph coming out of the water and wringing her wet hair.

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* estrujarse el cerebro = rack + Posesivo + brains.

* estrujarse los sesos = rack + Posesivo + brains.

* que queda por estrujar = unsqueezed.

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verbo transitivo

1)

a) (apretar arrugando) <papel> to crumple up, scrunch up; <tela> to crumple (up)

b) (para escurrir) to wring (out)

c) <uvas> to press

2) <persona> to squeeze, hold ... tightly

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= squeeze, extrude, wring.

Ex: Squeezed between the upper and nether milestones of increasing demand and dwindling resources, individual librarians develop ways in which to make their jobs easier.

Ex: In theory, at least, information provision has always been seen as an integral part of the library service, but in practice this had tended to become extruded to the point of non-existence by the time it reaches the smaller rural branches and mobile libraries = En teoría, al menos, la difusión de la información siempre se ha visto como una parte integral del servicio bibliotecario, aunque en la práctica se ha tendido a forzarla hasta el punto de su inexistencia cuando llega a las bibliotecas sucursales rurales más pequeñas y a las bibliotecas móviles.

Ex: The statue depicted a nymph coming out of the water and wringing her wet hair.

* estrujarse el cerebro = rack + Posesivo + brains.

* estrujarse los sesos = rack + Posesivo + brains.

* que queda por estrujar = unsqueezed.

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estrujar [A1 ]

vt

A

1 (apretar arrugando) ‹papel› to crumple up, scrunch up, crumple; ‹tela› to crumple, crumple up

2 (para escurrir) to wring, wring out

3 ‹uvas› to press

B ‹persona› to squeeze, hold … tightly

llevaba al niño estrujado entre sus brazos she carried the child tightly in her arms

■ estrujarse

v pron

A «blusa/tela» to get crumpled, wrinkle (AmE), to get creased (BrE)

B

(Chi) (reírse mucho) (fam): me estrujé con los chistes que contó he creased me up with his jokes (colloq)

¡cómo nos estrujamos al verla vestida así! we really fell about o cracked up when we saw her dressed like that (colloq)

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estrujar (conjugate estrujar) verbo transitivo
1

a) (apretar arrugando) ‹papel› to crumple up, scrunch up;

‹tela› to crumple (up)

b) (para escurrir) to wring (out)

c) ‹uvas› to press

2 ‹persona› to squeeze, hold … tightly
estrujar verbo transitivo
1 (apretar con fuerza) to crush: estrujó el papel, he crumpled up the paper
2 (exprimir) to squeeze
'estrujar' also found in these entries:
English:
squeeze

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estrujar

♦ vt

1. [limón, naranja] to squeeze;

[trapo, ropa] to wring (out); [esponja] to squeeze out

2. [papel] to screw up;

[caja] to crush

3. [persona, mano] to squeeze;

me estrujó un pie he squashed my foot;

¡no me estrujes! don't squash o crush me!

4. [aprovecharse de] to bleed dry

♦ See also the pronominal verb estrujarse

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estrujar

v/t

1 fam

crumple up, scrunch up fam

2 trapo wring out

3 persona squeeze, hold tightly

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estrujar vt

apretar: to press, to squeeze

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estrujar vb

1. (limón) to squeeze

2. (papel) to crumple up

3. (trapo, ropa) to wring out [pt. & pp. wrung]