Mermar in english
Mermar
pronunciation: mɜrmɑr part of speech: noun
pronunciation: mɜrmɑr part of speech: noun
In gestures
mermar = gut ; deplete ; chip away at ; whittle (away/down/at) ; reduce ; shrink ; eat into.
Example: Prices of European produced scientific, technical and medical serials continue to gut US research libraries.Example: This intermediate grade would equate with the senior library assistant, a category much depleted in UK academic librarianship.Example: Despite the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, guaranteeing freedom of expression, there seems to be an onslaught of people chipping away at this social foundation.Example: However, such idealism is often whittled away over time by bureaucratic problems & organizational demands.Example: The disadvantage of inversion of words is that inversion or indirect word order reduces predictability of form of headings.Example: The 'false hit' problem still arises, but becomes less likely as the 'neighborhood' of the two words shrinks.Example: As termites begin to eat into wood structures, the weakened structure of the wood will cause floors to creak with more frequency.more:
» mermar las fuerzas = sap + the energy .
Example: Fee services sap energies and attention from services responsive to other basic human values = El cobro de servicios merma las fuerzas y la atención que se le debería dedicar a servicios que atienden a otros valores humanos básicos.» mermar los recursos = stretch + Posesivo + resources ; burden + Posesivo + resources .
Example: While joint projects are a good thing, they can also fragment our energies and stretch our resources. Example: I must say it's quite a neat idea that beautifies the city and doesn't burden the resources.» mermar + Posesivo + confianza = sap + Posesivo + confidence .
Example: This ideology subordinated all women by belittling their achievements, sapping their confidence, and convincing them that they were really inferior to men.