rug

alfombra

Tejido grueso que se coloca sobre una parte del suelo.

En inglés sencillo: A thick piece of cloth that covers part of a floor.

• There is a rug beside my bed.
• We bought two rugs for the living room.
• Could you clean the rug by the door?

Sinónimos: carpet

Expresiones frecuentes: wool rug, rug on something, small rug

tironear, jalar

Tirar de algo con fuerza y brusquedad, pudiendo dañarlo.

En inglés sencillo: To pull something hard and roughly, possibly damaging it.

• Do not rug the rope like that.
• He rugged at the cloth until it tore.
• She tried to rug the sack away.

Cómo se usa: rug at something (He began to rug at the tangled rope.)

Sinónimos: tug, yank

Expresiones frecuentes: rug something, rug at something