agobiante

adj.

1 overwhelming.

2 exhausting, backbreaking, tough, arduous.

3 tiresome.

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agobiante

► adjetivo

1 (cansado) backbreaking, exhausting

2 (abrumado) overwhelming

3 (lugar) claustrophobic; (calor) oppressive

4 (persona) tiresome, tiring

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adj.

overwhelming

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ADJ

1) [calor, ambiente, lugar] oppressive

un día de verano agobiante — a stifling o sweltering summer's day

2) (=insoportable) [trabajo, día] stressful; [pena, ritmo] unbearable; [responsabilidad] overwhelming

es agobiante verla sufrir y no poder hacer nada — it's unbearable watching her suffer and being unable to do anything

una agobiante sensación de soledad — an overwhelming sense of loneliness

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adjetivo, agobiador -dora adjetivo <trabajo/día> exhausting; <calor> stifling

es una carga agobiante para él — it's/he's/she's a terrible burden on him

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= oppressive, overpowering, stifling, suffocating, sultry [sultrier -comp., sultriest -sup.], crippling, gut-wrenching, nightmarish.

Ex. Holman has decided we must see Slake's background, and it is as bleak and oppressive as one supposed it must be.

Ex. The librarian should at all times try to place himself in the position of the reader and ask just how much information will be useful without becoming overpowering.

Ex. He calls for various strategies of resistance to counter the stifling hand of capitalism on Western culture.

Ex. In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.

Ex. The day was sultry, and some of the party, being parched with thirst, left the line of march, and scrambled down the bank of the river to drink.

Ex. Can we avoid racism, sexism and the crippling effects of other forms of prejudicial stereotyping without recourse to censorship?.

Ex. In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.

Ex. It was the drugs that made me mad: Jane was anorexic, but the treatment prescribed pushed her over the edge for 22 nightmarish years.

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adjetivo, agobiador -dora adjetivo <trabajo/día> exhausting; <calor> stifling

es una carga agobiante para él — it's/he's/she's a terrible burden on him

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= oppressive, overpowering, stifling, suffocating, sultry [sultrier -comp., sultriest -sup.], crippling, gut-wrenching, nightmarish.

Ex: Holman has decided we must see Slake's background, and it is as bleak and oppressive as one supposed it must be.

Ex: The librarian should at all times try to place himself in the position of the reader and ask just how much information will be useful without becoming overpowering.

Ex: He calls for various strategies of resistance to counter the stifling hand of capitalism on Western culture.

Ex: In our media saturated world of high-blown hype and suffocating spin they do their best to tell you the truth.

Ex: The day was sultry, and some of the party, being parched with thirst, left the line of march, and scrambled down the bank of the river to drink.

Ex: Can we avoid racism, sexism and the crippling effects of other forms of prejudicial stereotyping without recourse to censorship?.

Ex: In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.

Ex: It was the drugs that made me mad: Jane was anorexic, but the treatment prescribed pushed her over the edge for 22 nightmarish years.

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agobiante

adj,

agobiador -dora adjective ‹trabajo/día› exhausting; ‹calor› stifling

hacía un calor agobiante it was stifling o oppressively hot

resultó ser una carga agobiante para él it turned out to be a terrible o crushing burden on him

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agobiante,

◊ agobiador -dora adjetivo ‹trabajo/día› exhausting;

‹calor› stifling;

◊ es una carga agobiante para él it's/he's/she's a terrible burden on him

agobiante adjetivo
1 (trabajo) overwhelming
2 (espacio cerrado) claustrophobic
3 (clima, temperatura) oppressive
4 (persona) tiresome, tiring

'agobiante' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
calor
English:
boiling
- burdensome
- oppressive
- stifling
- suffocating
- crippling

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agobiante adj

[presión, trabajo, persona] overwhelming; [calor] stifling; [ambiente] oppressive;

problemas agobiantes overwhelming problems;

trabajo agobiante backbreaking work

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agobiante

adj

1 trabajo exhausting

2 calor stifling

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agobiante adj

1) : exhausting, overwhelming

2) : stifling, oppressive