Translation for "swallow up" to spanish
Translation examples
Anger had swallowed up his pride.
La indignación había hecho que se tragara el orgullo.
His penis found its way with no resistance, as if swallowed up into an airless vacuum.
Entró en ella sin encontrar ninguna resistencia, como si se lo tragara el vacío.
I wanted to sink into the crate I was sitting on; to disappear, swallowed up by the earth.
Quería hundirme en la caja donde estaba sentado, desaparecer, que me tragara la tierra.
"It would be lovely," I said, "if we could have the earth swallow up our enemies.
—Sería estupendo —dije— poder hacer que la tierra se tragara a nuestros enemigos.
If I leave the hotel I'll be swallowed up, vanish without leaving a trace ...
Si dejo el hotel me tragará la tierra, desapareceré sin dejar huella alguna…
Walter, looking straight at Adela, glowered as though he fully expected her to be swallowed up by the ground.
Walter miró a Adela furioso, como deseando que se la tragara la tierra.
As when I was a naked child on a Trojan shield, I longed for an earthquake to swallow up the skene.
Igual que cuando era un niño desnudo sobre un escudo troyano, deseé que un terremoto se tragara la skn.
-Ah, my dear, we are not people to be swallowed up like little fish - dis-if the master.
—¡Oh, querido amigo, no somos gente que se deje tragar como boquerones! —dijo el maestro—.
Our light can swallow up your darkness: but your darkness cannot now infect our light.
Nuestra luz se puede tragar vuestra oscuridad, pero vuestra oscuridad no puede infectar nuestra luz.
We provoked a response, and I’m pretty sure we were about to die, or at least to be swallowed up by that machinery.‘
Provocamos una respuesta, y estoy bastante segura de que hemos estado a punto de morir, o al menos de que nos tragara esa maquinaria.
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