machacándolas

v. crush, pound; pulverize, grind; slam dunk; harp, dwell tediously on a subject; nag; swot

= bust, batter, squash, crush, clobber, steamroller, pound, lick, mash.
Ex: 'That new project he's been busting himself and everyone else over is way behind schedule and Peterson is getting fed up'.
Ex: But the early cylinder machines worked less accurately than the platens, tending to slur the impression and batter the type.
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: Clobbering the rich with taxes doesn't help anyone.
Ex: When push comes to shove, it seems that short-term economic interests steamroller scientific arguments.
Ex: A rotary machine invented in Holland in the late seventeenth century did not pound but minced the rags into pulp with revolving knives.
Ex: They got licked by a bunch of little, ill-armed peasant guerillas.
Ex: But scooping out the baked potatoes' flesh, mashing it with other ingredients, and then baking them again takes some extra time.
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* machacar los tipos = batter + type.
* machacar un idea = squash + idea.