Spanish–English dictionary

deseo sanguino

A desire for bloodshed and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture.

deseoso

Earnestly desirous.

desequilibrado

Not even or balanced; not the same on one side as on the other.

desequilibrar

(transitive) To cause to be out of balance.

desequilibrio

The loss of equilibrium or stability, especially due to an imbalance of forces.

deserción

(sciences) The loss of participants during an experiment.

deserrado

(not comparable) Free from errors; accurate, correct.

desertar

(intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.

desertor

(military) Absence without proper authority from the properly appointed place of duty, or from unit, organization, or other place of duty at which one is required to be at the time prescribed.

desertora

(military) Absence without proper authority from the properly appointed place of duty, or from unit, organization, or other place of duty at which one is required to be at the time prescribed.

deservicio

Service that results in harm; an (intentionally or unintentionally) unhelpful, harmful action.

desesperación

The loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection.

desesperadamente

In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly.

desesperado

Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.

desesperanza

The loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection.

desesperanzado

Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.

desesperanzar

(transitive) To cause to despair.

desesperanzarse

(intransitive) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation. [(often) with of]

desesperanzarse con

(transitive) To lose hope concerning (someone or something)

desesperar

(transitive) To cause to despair.

desesperarse

(intransitive) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation. [(often) with of]

desestabilización

A systematic attempt to overthrow a government by working from within; undermining.

desestabilizar

(transitive) To make something unstable.

desestimable

Not significant; not important, inconsequential, or having no noticeable effect.

desestimación

(legal) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.

desestimado

Missed, unnoticed.

desestimar

(transitive) To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.

desfacedor de entuertos

One who avenges or vindicates.

desfacer

To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.

desfachatado

Having no shame, no guilt nor remorse over something considered wrong; immodest, brazen; unable to feel disgrace.

desfachatez

Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.

desfalcar

(intransitive) To misappropriate funds; to embezzle.

desfalco

Embezzlement.

desfallecer

(intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.

desfasado

(idiomatic) Out of date; old-fashioned; obsolete; outmoded; outdated.

desfasaje

The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.

desfasar

(transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.

desfasarse

(computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.

desfase

The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.

desfavorable

Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.

desfavorecido

A deprived person; deprived people (normally used as a plural).

desfecho

Tired, weary.

desfibradora

A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder, garbage shredder or gardening or farming shredder.

desfibrilador

(cardiology) An electronic device used internally or externally that delivers a controlled electric shock to a patient to correct ventricular fibrillation, a lack of coordination of the contraction of muscle tissue of the large chambers of the heart.

desfigurado

mutilated, twisted, or disfigured.

desfigurar

(transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

desfijar

(transitive) To take apart from; to take off.

desfiladero

A narrow passage or way (originally (military) , one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.

desfilar

(intransitive, archaic) To march in a single file or line; to file.

desfile

A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.

desflorar

(transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.

desformar

To change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape.

desformarse

(intransitive) To become changed in shape or misshapen.

desfragmentar

(computing) To run a process that collects fragments of files and sorts them into contiguous sections on one or more hard disks or hard disk partitions, thus speeding up file management.

desfrenamiento

A state of wild activity or panic.

desgajar

(transitive) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst.

desgalgar

To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.

desgalillarse

(intransitive, also, figuratively) To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to screech, to shriek.

desgana

The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about something.

desganado

Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion.

desgañifarse

(intransitive, also, figuratively) To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to screech, to shriek.

desgañitarse

(intransitive, also, figuratively) To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to screech, to shriek.

desgarbado

(informal) Ungainly; awkward; inelegant; cumbersome.

desgarrado

Torn, either partly or into separate pieces.

desgarrador

(idiomatic) That causes extreme sorrow or grief.

desgarrar

(transitive) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate.

desgarrarse

(transitive, intransitive) (Followed by a preposition or adverb) To drive (a vehicle) in a particular direction or to a particular place.

desgarreate

(uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.

desgarrón

A hole or break caused by tearing.

desgastada

Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.

desgastado

(colloquial) Worn out or broken.

desgastar

(transitive) To rub or wear off; erode. [First attested in the late 17th century.]

desgastarse

(intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.

desgaste

(automotive) Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.

desgaste dental

(dentistry) The wearing of teeth due to their grinding.

desglosar

(ergative, figuratively) To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of.

desglose

(uncountable) Detailed categorization, or itemization or listing, of the components of a thing; (countable) an instance of this.

desgoznado

Not furnished with a hinge.

desgrabar

To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to a written representation of it. The term now usually implies the conversion of speech to text by a human transcriptionist with the assistance of a computer for word processing and sometimes also for speech recognition, the process of a computer interpreting speech and converting it to text.

desgracia

(countable) A cause of misery or ruin.

desgraciada

An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person.

desgraciadamente

In a forlorn manner.

desgraciado

(colloquial) Extremely bad; very unpleasant; used as an intensifier.

desgraciar

(transitive) To put someone or something out of favor; to bring shame or ignominy upon.

desgranar

(transitive) To thresh.

desgravable

Eligible to be deducted.

desgravación

The return of part of an amount already paid.

desgreñado

(of a person) With the hair uncombed.

desguabilar

(transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.

desguazar

(transitive) To eat (parts of) another of one's own species.

desgüevar

(transitive) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.

desguince

The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining

deshabilitar

(chiefly, electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

deshabitado

Not inhabited; having no inhabitants.

deshabituar

(transitive, by extension, normally "wean off") To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated.

deshacedor de agravios

One who avenges or vindicates.

deshacer

(transitive) To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.

deshacerse

(intransitive, with of) To eliminate or to get rid of something.

desharrapado

(of clothing) Torn, ragged or tattered.

deshecho

Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.

deshelar

(transitive) To remove frost from.

desheredar

(transitive) To exclude from inheritance; to disown.

deshidratación

The act or process of removing water from something.

deshidratado

Suffering from dehydration.

deshielo

The melting of ice, snow, or other frozen or congealed matter; the transformation of ice or the like into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost

deshierbar

(transitive) To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).

deshilachado

Unravelled; worn at the end or edge.

deshilachar

(also, figuratively) To rub or wear away (something); to cause (something made of strands twisted or woven together, such as cloth or rope) to unravel through friction; also, to irritate (something) through chafing or rubbing; to chafe.

deshilacharse

(also, figuratively) To rub or wear away (something); to cause (something made of strands twisted or woven together, such as cloth or rope) to unravel through friction; also, to irritate (something) through chafing or rubbing; to chafe.

deshilar

Of threads: to become separated from something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric; also, of something knitted or woven: to separate into threads; to come apart.

deshilvanado

(figuratively) Not connected, coherent, or continuous.

deshinchar

(transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink

deshonesto

Dishonorable; violating accepted standards or rules.

deshonor

Shame or disgrace.

deshonorar

To bring disgrace upon someone or something; to shame.

deshonra

(uncountable) The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.

deshonrar

(transitive) To put someone or something out of favor; to bring shame or ignominy upon.

deshonroso

Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.

deshora

The state of being untimely.

deshuesado

(US, humorous) Without pizza crust; without pizza bones

deshuesar

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

deshuevar

(transitive) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.

desidia

The quality of being lazy

desierta

Not filled, especially occupational positions.

desierto

Usually of a place: abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited.

desierto del Kalahari

large desert in Southern Africa

designación

That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.

designar

(transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.

designio

Intention or plot.

desigual

Not even or balanced; not the same on one side as on the other.

desigualdad

An unfair, not equal, state.

desilusión

(countable) An example or the act of disappointing: a circumstance in which a positive expectation is not achieved.

desilusionado

Disappointed; experiencing disillusionment; having lost one's illusions.

desilusionamiento

The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.

desilusionar

(transitive) To sadden or displease (someone) by underperforming, or by not delivering something promised or hoped for.

desincentivo

That which discourages a particular behaviour; a deterrent.

desincrustar

To remove scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc.

desinencia

(linguistics) A suffix used as an inflection; an ending; inflectional suffix.

desinfectante

A substance that kills germs or viruses.

desinfectar

To sterilize by the use of cleaning agent.

desinflado

(of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.

desinflar

(transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink

desinformación

False information intentionally disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead; intentional misinformation.

desinformar

(transitive) To give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information to.

desingenuo

Not honourable; unworthy of honour.

desinhibido

Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. [First attested from 1350 to 1470]

desinstalar

(computing) To completely remove hardware or software from a computer system.

desintegración

A deterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune.

desintegrar

(science fiction, transitive) To cause to break up into infinitesimal parts through the use of a disintegrator.

desintencionado

Not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting.