misery

Inflections of 'misery' (n): npl: miseries

Principal Translations
Inglés		Español
misery n	(feeling of unhappiness)	pena nf
		tristeza nf
	Richard's friends threw him a party to distract him from his misery.
	Los amigos de Richard le organizaron una fiesta para distraerlo de su pena.
misery n	(situation)	miseria nf
	The government was oppressive, and the people lived in misery.
	El gobierno era opresivo, y la gente vivía en la miseria.

Additional Translations
Inglés		Español
misery n	UK (person: cause suffering) (figurado)	dolor de cabeza loc nom m
	(figurado)	desgracia nf
	Sarah complained to her friend that her son was such a misery.
	Sarah se lamentó ante su amiga de que su hijo era un dolor de cabeza para ella.
misery n	(situation: cause)	desgracia nf
	The earthquake was a misery to all the people in the area.
	El terremoto fue una desgracia para toda la gente de la zona.

Compound Forms:
Inglés		Español
misery loves company expr	([sb] unhappy likes unhappy people)	desgracia compartida, menos sentida expr
		mal de muchos, consuelo de tontos expr
put [sb/sth] out of his/her/its misery v expr	(kill [sb/sth]) (eufemismo)	terminar con el sufrimiento loc verb
	(eufemismo)	poner a dormir loc verb
		sacrificar⇒ vtr
		matar⇒ vtr
	The dog was so ill that the vet said it would be kinder to put him out of his misery.
	El perro estaba muy enfermo y el veterinario dijo que sería mejor terminar con su sufrimiento.
put [sb] out of his/her misery v expr	figurative (finally give an answer, etc.) (figurado)	terminar con el sufrimiento de loc verb
	The judges finally put the contestants out of their misery by announcing the winner.

'misery' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:

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Spanish:

Collocations: a [life, decade, generation] of misery, [abject, complete, total] misery, [home, job, family] miseries, more...

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