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"trunco" in English

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"trunco" in English
trunco{adjective}
incomplete- truncated
truncar{verb}
to cut short- to frustrate- to shatter- to dash
truncar{transitive verb}
to truncate- to thwart
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trunco{adjective}
trunco(also: incompleto, a medias, descabalado)
incomplete{adj.}
trunco(also: truncado, truncada)
truncated{adj.}
truncar[truncando · truncado] {verb}
truncar(also: interrumpir, abreviar, acortar, tronchar)
to cut short {vb}
La participación de esas fuerzas vivas permitiría, cuando se aborden las cuestiones de inmigración y asilo, salir de un debate truncado.
Enlisting these human resources would make it possible, when discussing matters of immigration and asylum, to find a way out of a debate which has been cut short.
truncar
to frustrate[frustrated · frustrated] {vb}
truncar(also: cascar, echar por tierra, estallar, tronchar)
to shatter {vb}
El sueño se truncó a consecuencia de las dos terribles guerras que asolaron el continente durante la primera mitad del siglo XX.
The dream was shattered by the terrible wars that ravaged the continent during the first half of the 20th century.
Ha venido para contemplar las ruinas de sus sueños europeos truncados.
You are here to survey the shattered wreckage of your broken European dreams.
truncar(also: defraudar)
to dash[dashed · dashed] {v.t.} (disappoint)
Todas estas esperanzas se han visto truncadas.
All of those hopes have been dashed.
truncar[truncando · truncado] {transitive verb}
truncar
to truncate[truncated · truncated] {v.t.}
Será desastroso para la Unión si mantenemos esta práctica de truncar el turno de preguntas y sólo se tratan adecuadamente unas pocas cuestiones.
It will be disastrous for the Union if we carry on this practice of truncating Question Time and having very few questions dealt with properly.
Señor Presidente, el programa de esta semana y, sobre todo, el de hoy, ha sido reducido, escueto y se ha visto truncado.
Mr President, our agenda this week, and today particularly, has been thin, meagre and truncated.
La información sobre Europa, truncada, deformada, instrumentalizada por los medios de comunicación o las clases políticas nacionales.
Information on Europe, which is truncated, distorted and exploited by the media and the national political classes.
truncar(also: frustrar, desarticular)
to thwart[thwarted · thwarted] {vb}

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El sueño se truncó a consecuencia de las dos terribles guerras que asolaron el continente durante la primera mitad del siglo XX.
The dream was shattered by the terrible wars that ravaged the continent during the first half of the 20th century.
Su voz se truncó porque empezó a llorar, pero después continuó diciendo que hacía un mes que no recibía la pensión, y que no sabía cómo iba a sobrevivir.
She stopped speaking because she began crying, but then went on to say that since she had not received the pension for that month, she did not know how she would manage to survive.

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