Estrago in english
pronunciation: hævək part of speech: noun
estrago = ravages ; decimation ; shattering ; mayhem ; havoc.
Example: Problems faced maybe entirely new ones, such as protecting the library's stock from the ravages of climate or of insects.Example: Over the past decades librarians have been variously outraged and resigned to budget cuts and spiralling prices, leading to the decimation of their holdings.Example: Its shooting stabs of pain, its yelps of despair, its tears, its emotional zigzagging, all bear testimony to such a shattering.Example: Ten days after the mayhem in Detroit, a riot rocked Harlem, triggered by a rumor that a white policeman had shot and killed a black soldier.Example: However, protests are happening all over the world, especially after the havoc in the Gulf of Mexico.more:
» causar estragos = wreak + havoc ; ravage ; run + amok ; cause + havoc ; create + havoc ; play + havoc with ; lay + waste to ; take + Posesivo + toll (on) .
Example: I would, nonetheless, like to consider a common type of a change, which normally presents no problem under a manual system, but which could wreak havoc in an automated system. Example: The rigours of the climate and the effects of war and political unrest have ravaged this country's cultural heritage. Example: Term paper fraud runs amok on the Web as dozens of fee and free sites have thousands of term papers available for lazy and unprincipled students. Example: It was found that someone had dumped a load of builders' rubble down a manhole blocking the sewer and causing havoc. Example: Power-hungry politicians are creating havoc everywhere. Example: To treat these reports differently only because some are serial and the others are monographic in form is to play havoc with the integrity of the catalog and to confound its users. 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: The pressures which modern society puts on all its members are great and those pressures take their toll.» estragos = destruction .
Example: In the event of a serious accident (a fire, deliberate destruction, or a computer error) nothing will happen to the records vital to the operation of the library.» estragos de la enfermedad, los = ravages of disease, the .
Example: Vaccines are among the most effective weapons for protecting horses against the ravages of disease.» estragos de la guerra, los = ravages of war, the .
Example: The ravages of war devastated Afghanistan's infrastructure, breaking people away from their homes and from each other.» estragos del tiempo, los = ravages of time, the .
Example: Unused school buildings sit idle as ravages of time take toll.» hacer estragos = lay + waste to ; create + havoc ; wreak + havoc ; cause + havoc ; take + Posesivo + toll (on) ; ravage ; run + amok .
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: Power-hungry politicians are creating havoc everywhere. Example: I would, nonetheless, like to consider a common type of a change, which normally presents no problem under a manual system, but which could wreak havoc in an automated system. Example: It was found that someone had dumped a load of builders' rubble down a manhole blocking the sewer and causing havoc. Example: The pressures which modern society puts on all its members are great and those pressures take their toll. Example: The rigours of the climate and the effects of war and political unrest have ravaged this country's cultural heritage. Example: Term paper fraud runs amok on the Web as dozens of fee and free sites have thousands of term papers available for lazy and unprincipled students.» hacer estragos en = play + havoc with .
Example: To treat these reports differently only because some are serial and the others are monographic in form is to play havoc with the integrity of the catalog and to confound its users.» ocasionar estragos = wreak + havoc .
Example: I would, nonetheless, like to consider a common type of a change, which normally presents no problem under a manual system, but which could wreak havoc in an automated system.» provocar estragos = create + havoc ; wreak + havoc ; cause + havoc .
Example: Power-hungry politicians are creating havoc everywhere. Example: I would, nonetheless, like to consider a common type of a change, which normally presents no problem under a manual system, but which could wreak havoc in an automated system. Example: It was found that someone had dumped a load of builders' rubble down a manhole blocking the sewer and causing havoc.» provocar estragos en = play + havoc with .
Example: To treat these reports differently only because some are serial and the others are monographic in form is to play havoc with the integrity of the catalog and to confound its users.estragos = destruction.
Example: In the event of a serious accident (a fire, deliberate destruction, or a computer error) nothing will happen to the records vital to the operation of the library.