Arrasar in english
Raze
pronunciation: reɪz part of speech: verb
pronunciation: reɪz part of speech: verb
In gestures
arrasar1 = lay + waste to ; flatten ; sweep away ; rip through ; raze ; annihilate ; devastate ; mow down.
Example: The mutilation of periodicals is laying waste to vital and expensive periodical collections in all kinds of library across the USA, and it seems to strike academic libraries with particular virulence.Example: This article describes how the organisation has been flattened into one unit during the changeover from a manual system to an automated statewide library system.Example: Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.Example: Storms in this part of the world are common and the people didn't seem to bat an eyelid at the prospect of a 135km wind ripping through their town.Example: The motel, which was built in 1953, will be razed to make way for a parking lot.Example: He intends to annihilate all the major world powers, until Islamic nations dominate the planet.Example: 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.Example: A 15-year-old girl was mowed down on her way home from school by a driver speeding away from police in a stolen car.more:
» arrasar completamente = raze + Nombre + to the ground .
Example: The town, small though it was, was an Athenian fortress, so the Spartans were eager to raze it to the ground.» arrasar una ciudad = level + a city .
Example: Kids can use the pliable dough to build all manner of things -- rather than level cities and shoot people -- and they can even eat moderate amounts of it without ending up in the emergency room.» epidemia + arrasar = epidemic + rage .
Example: Evidence is slight that books ever helped spread the epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, and scarlet fever that raged in US and European cities at the turn of the century = Existen escasas pruebas de que los libros ayudaran alguna vez a extender las epidemias de viruela, tuberculosis y escarlatina que arrasaron ciudades estadounidenses y europeas a finales de siglo .» fuego + arrasar = fire + sweep through .
Example: In 1988 an electrically-caused fire swept through the Jewish archives in New York City.» pasar rápidamente arrasando = tear through .
Example: Investigators are trying to determine the cause of an unwieldy blaze that tore through a lumber mill in southern British Columbia.arrasar2 = take + no prisoners ; take + Nombre + by storm ; win by + a landslide ; storm to + victory ; win + big.
Example: He broke all the rules on and off the stage and took no prisoners in his wild pursuit of pleasure, pain, tragedy, and hope.Example: He was a confident, unspoiled, talented, hard-working young man when he moved to a strange town as a youngster and took it by storm.Example: The polls mean nothing at this point -- if he wins by a landslide fantastic but we are in June not October, long way between there and now.Example: Labour's David Lammy stormed to victory in the Tottenham Parliamentary election with a thumping majority.Example: France wins big in European Swimming Championships.more:
» arrasar con = eat + Posesivo + way through .
Example: After demolishing the cakes and sandwiches, pots of tea and buns laid on the table, he proceeded to eat his way through the contents of the fridge.