aplastar

v.

1 to squash, to crush (por el peso).

El auto aplastó al sapito The car squashed the little toad.

La pena aplastó a Ricardo Grief crushed Richard.

2 to quash, to crush, to suffocate.

El general aplastó el motín The general quashed the mutiny.

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aplastar

► verbo transitivo

1 (gen) to flatten, squash, crush

2 figurado (destruir) to crush, destroy

■ aplastar al enemigo to crush the enemy

► verbo pronominal aplastarse

1 to be flattened, be squashed, be crushed

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verb

1) to crush, squash

2) overwhelm

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1. VT

1) [+ insecto etc] to squash, crush

2) (fig) (=vencer) to crush, overwhelm; [con argumentos] to floor

2.

See:

aplastarse

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1.

verbo transitivo

1) <sombrero/caja> to squash, crush

aplastar los plátanos con un tenedor — mash the bananas with a fork

2)

a) <rebelión> to crush, quash

b) <rival> to crush, overwhelm; (moralmente) to devastate

2.

aplastarse v pron (Col, Méx, Per fam) (arrellanarse) to sprawl

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= devastate, squash, crush, steamroller.

Ex. The article 'Sorting a mountain of books' relates how when the law library was devastated by fire what had been a library became a jumble of 100,000 books and periodicals.

Ex. The article has the title 'Reorganizing organizations and information: how knowledge technologies squash heirarchy and alter the role of information'.

Ex. The article is entitled 'Dinosaurs to crush flies: computer catalogues, classification and other barriers to library use'.

Ex. When push comes to shove, it seems that short-term economic interests steamroller scientific arguments.

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* aplastar de un manotazo = swat.

* morir aplastado = crush to + death.

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1.

verbo transitivo

1) <sombrero/caja> to squash, crush

aplastar los plátanos con un tenedor — mash the bananas with a fork

2)

a) <rebelión> to crush, quash

b) <rival> to crush, overwhelm; (moralmente) to devastate

2.

aplastarse v pron (Col, Méx, Per fam) (arrellanarse) to sprawl

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= devastate, squash, crush, steamroller.

Ex: The article 'Sorting a mountain of books' relates how when the law library was devastated by fire what had been a library became a jumble of 100,000 books and periodicals.

Ex: The article has the title 'Reorganizing organizations and information: how knowledge technologies squash heirarchy and alter the role of information'.

Ex: The article is entitled 'Dinosaurs to crush flies: computer catalogues, classification and other barriers to library use'.

Ex: When push comes to shove, it seems that short-term economic interests steamroller scientific arguments.

* aplastar de un manotazo = swat.

* morir aplastado = crush to + death.

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aplastar [A1 ]

vt

A ‹sombrero/caja/paquete› to squash, crush

lo aplastó del todo he crushed it completely, he flattened it

aplastar los plátanos con un tenedor mash the bananas with a fork

B

1 ‹rebelión› to crush, quash; ‹rival› to crush, overwhelm

lo aplastó con sus argumentos she overwhelmed him with her arguments

2 (moralmente) to devastate

quedó aplastado cuando se enteró he was devastated when he heard

se dejó aplastar por la depresión he let his depression get the better of him o get on top of him

■ aplastarse

v pron

1 (Col, Méx, Per fam) (arrellanarse) to sprawl

2 (Arg, Bol fam) to tire oneself out

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aplastar (conjugate aplastar) verbo transitivo
1

a) (algo blando) to squash;

(algo duro) to crush

b) (hacer puré) ‹plátanos/papas› to mash

2

a) ‹rebelión› to crush, quash

b) ‹rival› to crush, overwhelm;

(moralmente) to devastate
aplastar verbo transitivo
1 to flatten, squash
2 fig (vencer) to crush
'aplastar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
achuchar
- pasapurés
English:
crush
- flatten
- mash
- overwhelm
- quash
- squash
- stifle
- suppress
- swat
- beat
- crunch
- devastate
- smash
- stamp

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aplastar

♦ vt

1. [por peso] to squash, to crush

2. [equipo, revuelta] to crush

3. Fam [confundir] to leave dumbfounded o speechless

♦ See also the pronominal verb aplastarse

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aplastar

v/t tb fig

crush

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aplastar vt

: to crush, to squash

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aplastar vb

1. (chafar) to squash / to flatten

se sentó encima del sombrero y lo aplastó he sat on the hat and squashed it

2. (derrotar) to crush