spleen

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Órgano cercano al estómago que ayuda a limpiar la sangre y combatir enfermedades.

En inglés sencillo: An organ near the stomach that helps clean the blood and fight disease.

• The spleen helps clean the blood.
• The doctor found that her spleen was enlarged.
• He had his spleen removed after the accident.

Expresiones frecuentes: enlarged spleen, ruptured spleen, remove the spleen

ataque de risa

Momento repentino de risas fuertes o gran diversión.

En inglés sencillo: A sudden period of loud laughter or great amusement.

• His joke brought on a spleen.
• She could hardly speak through her fit of spleen.
• The comic scene left them shaking with spleen.

Sinónimos: merriment, laughter

Expresiones frecuentes: a fit of spleen, a merry spleen

irritar, molestar

Hacer que alguien se moleste o se enfade.

En inglés sencillo: To make someone feel annoyed or angry.

• His remarks spleen me.
• The insult spleened her deeply.
• He tried to spleen his rival with cruel jokes.

Sinónimos: annoy, irritate

Antónimos: please

Expresiones frecuentes: spleen someone, spleen a rival

despotricar, quejarse

Quejarse con enfado o expresar sentimientos de amargura.

En inglés sencillo: To complain angrily or express bitter feelings.

• He spleened about his misfortune.
• The writer spleened against the government.
• She spent the evening spleening at her critics.

Cómo se usa: spleen against someone/something (He spleened against the rulers who had betrayed him.)

Sinónimos: complain, rail, rant

Expresiones frecuentes: spleen against something, spleen at someone

extirpar el bazo, cornear

Quitar el órgano cercano al estómago que limpia la sangre, o atravesar a alguien con un cuerno.

En inglés sencillo: To take out the organ near the stomach that cleans blood, or pierce someone with a horn.

• The surgeon spleened the animal.
• The bull spleened its attacker with one sharp horn.
• The wounded beast nearly spleened the hunter.

Sinónimos: gore

Expresiones frecuentes: spleen an animal, spleen someone

eliminar, extirpar

Quitar algo o separarlo cortándolo.

En inglés sencillo: To cut something out or remove it.

• The editor spleened the passage.
• They spleened the unwanted section from the text.
• The damaged part was spleened out.

Sinónimos: remove, excise, cut out

Antónimos: insert

Expresiones frecuentes: spleen something out, spleen a passage