descuartizar

v.

1 to dismember (person).

2 to tear up, to cut into pieces, to take to pieces, to cut up.

3 to destroy, to shatter.

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descuartizar

Conjugation model [REALIZAR], like realizar

► verbo transitivo

1 (persona) to quarter; (animal) to quarter, cut up

2 familiar figurado to pull to pieces, tear apart

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VT

1) (=despedazar) [+ animal] to carve up, cut up; [+ cuerpo, cadáver] to quarter

2) (=hacer pedazos) to tear apart

ni que me descuarticen — not even if they tear me apart

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verbo transitivo

a) <res/reo> to quarter

b) asesino

descuartizaba a sus víctimas — he chopped his victims' bodies (up) into pieces

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= dismember, chop up.

Ex. Books can seldom be disbound for the benefit of bibliographers (although it is worth remembering that they sometimes have to be rebound, when they are completely dismembered), but we can now see through printing ink by means of betaradiography.

Ex. The writer bemoans record studios' tendency to chop up and fiddle with opera performances.

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verbo transitivo

a) <res/reo> to quarter

b) asesino

descuartizaba a sus víctimas — he chopped his victims' bodies (up) into pieces

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= dismember, chop up.

Ex: Books can seldom be disbound for the benefit of bibliographers (although it is worth remembering that they sometimes have to be rebound, when they are completely dismembered), but we can now see through printing ink by means of betaradiography.

Ex: The writer bemoans record studios' tendency to chop up and fiddle with opera performances.

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descuartizar [A4 ]

vt

A

1 ‹res› to quarter

2 ‹reo› to quarter

3 «asesino» to dismember

descuartizaba a sus víctimas he dismembered his victims' bodies (up) into pieces

4 (romper) to tear o pull … to pieces, tear o pull … to shreds

B (fam) (hablar mal de) to run down, to bitch about (colloq), to slag off (BrE colloq)

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descuartizar (conjugate descuartizar) verbo transitivo

a) ‹res› to quarter

b) [asesino] to chop … (up) into pieces

descuartizar verbo transitivo to cut up o into pieces
'descuartizar' also found in these entries:
English:
dismember
- quarter

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descuartizar vt

1. [res] to carve up, to quarter

2. [persona] to dismember;

un cuerpo descuartizado a dismembered body

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descuartizar

v/t quarter

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descuartizar {21} vt

1) : to cut up, to quarter

2) : to tear to pieces