lastrar

v.

to ballast.

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lastrar

► verbo transitivo

1 MARÍTIMO to ballast

2 figurado to hinder

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VT

1) [+ embarcación, globo] to ballast

2) (=obstaculizar) to burden, weigh down

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verbo transitivo

a) <buque/globo> to ballast

b) (entorpecer) to burden, weigh down

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= weight down.

Ex. If they were watching the nimble movements of a compositor as he gathered the types from the hundred and fifty-two boxes of his case, they would run into a ream of wetted paper weighted down with paving stones.

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verbo transitivo

a) <buque/globo> to ballast

b) (entorpecer) to burden, weigh down

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= weight down.

Ex: If they were watching the nimble movements of a compositor as he gathered the types from the hundred and fifty-two boxes of his case, they would run into a ream of wetted paper weighted down with paving stones.

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lastrar [A1 ]

vt

1 ‹buque/globo› to ballast

2 (entorpecer) to encumber, burden, weigh down

■ lastrar

vi

(RPl arg) (comer) to stuff oneself (colloq), to pig out (sl)

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lastrar

♦ vt

1. [globo, barco] to ballast

2. [estorbar] to hamper

♦ vi

RP Fam to pig out, to stuff one's face

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lastrar

v/t MAR ballast; fig

burden

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lastrar vt

1) : to ballast

2) : to burden, to encumber