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zamparse
v.
demolish; punish; put away; scoff; tuck
| A Spanish-English Dictionary (Granada University, Spain), 13.03.31 | Download this dictionary |
zamparse
(v.) = gobble up ; put away ; scoff ; polish + Nombre + off ; guzzle ; hoover up ; make + short change of ; gorge.
Ex: From the 1680s several large publishers formed a more permanent association which came to be known as the `conger' (the name being variously derived from congerere, `to bring together', and from the big eel which gobbles up the small fry).
Ex: He put away twice as much wine as usual and it went to his head, so he stretched out on his bed for a nap.
Ex: The birds -- known as monk parakeets -- won't stop scoffing the farmers' crops -- they're not fussy about what they eat.
Ex: Martin cut it in half, and we polished it off before going to bed.
Ex: He has confessed that he used to guzzle cough syrup when he was at the peak of his drug addiction.
Ex: A lot of the median wage earner's money has been hoovered up by the health care system.
Ex: I guess they're trying to prove that the new Freddy can make short change of the people that defeated him before.
Ex: I stopped gorging everything close at hand and watching TV continually I became more interested in exercise.
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* zampárselo todo = scoff + the lot.
Ex: From the 1680s several large publishers formed a more permanent association which came to be known as the `conger' (the name being variously derived from congerere, `to bring together', and from the big eel which gobbles up the small fry).
Ex: He put away twice as much wine as usual and it went to his head, so he stretched out on his bed for a nap.
Ex: The birds -- known as monk parakeets -- won't stop scoffing the farmers' crops -- they're not fussy about what they eat.
Ex: Martin cut it in half, and we polished it off before going to bed.
Ex: He has confessed that he used to guzzle cough syrup when he was at the peak of his drug addiction.
Ex: A lot of the median wage earner's money has been hoovered up by the health care system.
Ex: I guess they're trying to prove that the new Freddy can make short change of the people that defeated him before.
Ex: I stopped gorging everything close at hand and watching TV continually I became more interested in exercise.
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* zampárselo todo = scoff + the lot.
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