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overwhelmed / overwhelming

Spanish translation: abrumado/abrumador

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English term or phrase:overwhelmed / overwhelming
Spanish translation:abrumado/abrumador
Entered by: Ana Juliá

10:59 May 4, 2011
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Religion / bautismo
English term or phrase: overwhelmed / overwhelming
Christ was saying: Are you able to drink of the bitter cup of which I am now about to drink so deep, and to be baptized with the baptism, and plunged into that sea of sufferings with which I am shortly to be baptized, and, as it were, ***overwhelmed*** for a time?
If our Lord intended the ordinance of baptism to exhibit an image of the ***overwhelming*** sorrows of his soul, in the garden and on the cross, his intention is frustrated by the change of immersion into sprinkling!

Es en el sentido de:

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
overwhelm/əʊvəˈwelm/
▶verb
1 bury or drown beneath a huge mass.
■ give too much of something to: they were overwhelmed by letters.
Ana Juliá
Spain
Local time: 22:22
abrumado/abrumador
Explanation:
es lo que suelo usar en este sentido y no me parece que quede muy mal aquí

saludos
Selected response from:

Miguel Martin
Local time: 22:22
Grading comment
Gracias
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +12abrumado/abrumador
Miguel Martin
5abrumado / abrumador
Juan Salanova
4 +1abrumado / abrumadoras
Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz
4agobiado/agobiantes
lola flores
4incontenible
jude dabo
3hundido / pesadumbre
Abaz


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +12
abrumado/abrumador


Explanation:
es lo que suelo usar en este sentido y no me parece que quede muy mal aquí

saludos

Miguel Martin
Local time: 22:22
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Gracias

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ruth Wöhlk
7 mins
  -> gracias Ruth!
agree  FVS (X)
22 mins
  -> gracias FVS
agree  Charles Davis: Es lo que corresponde, sin duda, y tú fuiste el primero
24 mins
  -> gracias Charles
agree  Maria Alvarez
51 mins
  -> gracias
agree  José Mª SANZ (X)
1 hr
  -> gracias
agree  Rafael Molina Pulgar
1 hr
  -> gracias
agree  JH Trads
1 hr
  -> gracias
agree  Ma.Elena Carrión de Medina
2 hrs
  -> gracias
agree  Ximena Diaz (X)
2 hrs
agree  mendezhord: Es de cajón.
6 hrs
  -> gracias
agree  eski: First come...! eski en Aca :))
8 hrs
  -> gracias
agree  susanadeu
2 days 6 hrs
  -> gracias
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
abrumado / abrumador


Explanation:
Espero que no estés overwhelmed con tu traducción

Juan Salanova
Spain
Local time: 22:22
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
abrumado / abrumadoras


Explanation:
Yo lo traduciría así.

Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz
Spain
Local time: 22:22
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  eski: Claro que vale! Saludos. eski
8 hrs
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
agobiado/agobiantes


Explanation:
Es otra opción

lola flores
Local time: 22:22
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
incontenible


Explanation:
my take!

jude dabo
Local time: 21:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
hundido / pesadumbre


Explanation:
Dos términos distintos para cada caso.

El tipo de relación no es como en el original, pero creo que el sentido se acerca. Quizás te sirva o te sugiera algo.

Abaz
Spain
Local time: 22:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 138
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