aplastar

v. squash, crush; squelch; swat; overwhelm

v. unfurl, unroll, unfold; make weary, tire

= devastate, squash, crush, steamroller.
Ex: 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.
Ex: The article has the title 'Reorganizing organizations and information: how knowledge technologies squash heirarchy and alter the role of information'.
Ex: The article is entitled 'Dinosaurs to crush flies: computer catalogues, classification and other barriers to library use'.
Ex: When push comes to shove, it seems that short-term economic interests steamroller scientific arguments.
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* morir aplastado = crush to + death.