esfumarse — meaning in English
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English meaning
- blur verb To make something unclear, hazy, or difficult to make out.
- fizzle verb To gradually fail or fade away after a promising start.
- flake noun A small, thin, flat piece that has broken off something larger.
- scram verb To leave quickly, especially as a command telling someone to go away.
- vanish verb To disappear suddenly, or to go out of sight without being noticed.
Senses
esfumarse is used for these senses in English:
- be off with you (dated) Go away; get out.
- fizzle (figuratively, informal) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
- flake (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
- scram (intransitive, originally, US, often, imperative) To leave in a hurry; to go away. [from early 20th c.]
- slip away To leave without being noticed.
- vanish (intransitive) To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
blur — full definition
- verb To make something unclear, hazy, or difficult to make out.
- noun Something that appears hazy, smudged, or indistinct.
fizzle — full definition
- verb To gradually fail or fade away after a promising start.
- verb To make a soft hissing or sputtering sound.
- noun A failure or disappointing outcome, especially after high expectations.