fango

m.

mud.

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fango

► nombre masculino

1 (barro) mud, mire

2 figurado degradation

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SM (=lodo) mud, mire; (fig) mire, dirt

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masculino mud

su nombre quedó cubierto de fango — his name was dragged through the mud

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= slime, sludge, muck, mire.

Ex. One cannot infer from the sexist analogies of slime and holes the claim that woman occupies an inferior ontological status.

Ex. This is a project to incinerate an estimated 700, 000 tonnes of toxic sludge created as a byproduct of a century of steelmaking.

Ex. However, those who have tasted the succulent meat of this type of clam are more than willing to dig up to their armpits in the intertidal muck to capture such delicious quarry.

Ex. This international network of specialists promote, encourage and co-ordinate the conservation of mires and related ecosystems.

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* revolcarse en el fango = wallow in + the mire.

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masculino mud

su nombre quedó cubierto de fango — his name was dragged through the mud

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= slime, sludge, muck, mire.

Ex: One cannot infer from the sexist analogies of slime and holes the claim that woman occupies an inferior ontological status.

Ex: This is a project to incinerate an estimated 700, 000 tonnes of toxic sludge created as a byproduct of a century of steelmaking.

Ex: However, those who have tasted the succulent meat of this type of clam are more than willing to dig up to their armpits in the intertidal muck to capture such delicious quarry.

Ex: This international network of specialists promote, encourage and co-ordinate the conservation of mires and related ecosystems.

* revolcarse en el fango = wallow in + the mire.

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fango

masculine

1 (barro) mud

2

(abyección, oprobio): su nombre quedó cubierto de fango his name was dragged through the mud, his name was mud (colloq)

hundidos en el fango deshonroso de su pasado sunk deep in the shameful mire of their past (liter)

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fango sustantivo masculino
mud
fango sustantivo masculino (barro, lodo) mud
'fango' also found in these entries:
English:
mud
- sludge

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fango nm

1. [barro] mud

2. [deshonra]

el escándalo cubrió de fango al presidente the scandal sullied the president's reputation

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fango

m tb fig

mud;

aplicación de fango MED mud wrap;

arrastrar por el fango fig drag through the mud;

cubrir de fango fig cast slurs on, attack;

su nombre quedó cubierto de fango his name was mud fam

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fango nm

lodo: mud, mire

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fango n mud