WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:
Principal Translations |
desollar⇒ vtr | (quitar la piel) | skin⇒ vtr |
| | flay⇒ vtr |
| (of whales) | flense⇒, flench⇒ vtr |
| Desolló el antílope y puso a secar la piel. |
| He skinned the antelope and hung it to dry. |
desollar vtr | figurado (difamar a alguien) (figurative) | rip [sb] to shreds, skin [sb] alive, tear [sb] to pieces v expr |
| (figurative) | tear into vtr phrasal insep |
| (figurative) | rip apart vtr phrasal sep |
| Le desollaron en cuanto abandonó la habitación. |
| They ripped him to shreds (or: skinned him alive) as soon as he left the room. |
Additional Translations |
desollarse⇒ v prnl | (levantarse la piel) (US) | skin⇒, scrape⇒ vtr |
| (UK) | graze⇒ vtr |
| | scratch up vtr phrasal sep |
| Me desollé las manos arrancando malas hierbas. |
| ⓘEsta oración no es una traducción de la original. I skinned (or: scraped) my knee when I fell down. |
desollar⇒ vtr | (privar de todo bien) | fleece⇒ vtr |
| Los prestamistas lo desollaron vivo y lo dejaron sin un céntimo. |
| The moneylenders fleeced him alive and left him with out a dime. |
'desollar' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:
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