Translation for "golpearse el pecho" to english

Golpearse el pecho

verb

• beat the breast

Translation examples

beat the breast verb

Luego, inesperadamente, empezó a golpearse el pecho y a lamentarse: —Todo es culpa mía.
Then suddenly she started beating her breast and lamenting: “It’s all my fault.

Arrancándose la mordaza de la boca, Meelusk empezó a golpearse el pecho y a lamentarse.
Ripping the gag from his mouth, Meelusk began to beat his breast and wail.

Esperó a que el marinero terminara de golpearse el pecho y se persignara, para aproximarse.
He waited until the sailor stopped beating his breast and crossing himself, and then went over to him.

Las mujeres empezaron a gemir, a golpearse el pecho y tirarse de los cabellos, y los hombres se lamentaban como animales atrapados.
The women began to wail and beat their breasts and tear their hair; and the men moaned like trapped animals.

Jai le observó atormentarse, golpearse el pecho, morderse. Una chica, dijo Jai. —¡Chicas!
Jai watched him torment himself, beat his breast, eat himself up. A girl , said Jai. "Girls! Girls!"

Entre la procesión que descendía desde la Velia iban las plañideras profesionales que, vestidas con túnicas negras, no cesaban de golpearse el pecho, de mesarse los cabellos profiriendo lamentos y entonando cantos fúnebres.
Interspersed with the chariots and litters as the procession came down from the Velia were black-robed professional mourners beating their breasts, tearing their hair, emitting eldritch wails and keening dirges.