zozobrar

v.

1 to be shipwrecked.

2 to fall through.

3 to capsize, to sink, to founder.

El pobre barquito zozobró The poor little boat capsized.

4 to run into failure, to come off badly, to fail, to sink.

El mal estudiante zozobra de nuevo The poor student sinks again.

5 to be anguished, to feel anguish, to be distressed.

Me zozobró el bote My boat foundered.

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zozobrar

► verbo intransitivo

1 (barco) to sink, capsize

2 (persona) to worry, be anxious

3 (proyecto) to fail, be ruined

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VI

1) [barco] (=hundirse) to founder, sink; (=volcar) to capsize, overturn; (=peligrar) to be in danger

2) (=fracasar) [plan] to fail, founder; [negocio] to be ruined

3) [persona] to be anxious, worry

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verbo intransitivo

1) barco (hundirse) to founder; (volcar) to capsize

2) proyecto/negocio to founder

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= founder, keel over.

Ex. It is that, without direction, the library craft may founder in the perpetual whitewater.

Ex. If I was running at a dead sprint going full tilt, I do not think I could make it much more than maybe one mile before I would keel over.

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verbo intransitivo

1) barco (hundirse) to founder; (volcar) to capsize

2) proyecto/negocio to founder

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= founder, keel over.

Ex: It is that, without direction, the library craft may founder in the perpetual whitewater.

Ex: If I was running at a dead sprint going full tilt, I do not think I could make it much more than maybe one mile before I would keel over.

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zozobrar [A1 ]

vi

A «barco» (hundirse) to founder; (volcar) to capsize

B «proyecto/negocio» to founder

la empresa ya zozobraba the company was already on the verge of collapse o was already foundering

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zozobrar (conjugate zozobrar) verbo intransitivo
1 [barco] (hundirse) to founder;
(volcar) to capsize
2 [proyecto/negocio] to founder
zozobrar vi Náut to capsize, to be shipwrecked
'zozobrar' also found in these entries:
English:
capsize
- upset

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zozobrar vi

1. [barco] to founder, to sink

2. [proyecto, empresa] to founder

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zozobrar

v/i

1 MAR overturn, capsize; de negocio go under

2 fig

worry, be anxious

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zozobrar vi

: to capsize