desollada
English translation: flayed/skinned (depending on context)
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| 21:41 Dec 9, 2014 |
| Spanish to English translations [PRO] Medical (general) / criminology, Mexico | |||||
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|  Selected response from: Cinnamon Nolan Spain Local time: 07:01 | ||||
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| 5 +1 | skinned |
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| 4 +2 | flayed |
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| 5 | skinned |
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3 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1skinned Explanation: hope this helps |
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4 mins confidence:
skinned Explanation: desollar una papa: to peel the potato Desollar un pollo: to skin the chicken -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 54 mins (2014-12-09 22:36:41 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=desollar |
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3 hrs confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2flayed Explanation: Ugh. Anyway, there are just a few reports already translated to English and this one shows a [Warning: graphic] picture of the face: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2014/12/missing-nursing-studen... Borderland Beat ...Kassandra Bravo Caro, a young nursing student missing from Uruapan ... was found dead Saturday, with her face flayed and knife wounds to the chest, .. To flay is also to skin, but more in strips (especially happens in whippings) rather than completely. Texas Southern Border News | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Texas-Southern.../14607787546... All the bodies showed signs of torture, with their hands tied behind their backs, ... Erika -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2014-12-10 01:21:17 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Another possibility: PARTIALLY SKINNED It's true that the original does not say "partially" but, thanks to the unusually graphic photo, we can see that her face was not totally skinned. http://www.inquisitr.com/1662434/mexico-missing-nursing-stud... Bravo Caro’s body showed stab wounds to the chest area. A graphic photo, published by some Mexican media outlets, show the girl’s **mutilated face with entire areas of skin peeled off.** Authorities say she was last seen by her family dressed in her nurses uniform headed to work in La Quinta. Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1662434/mexico-missing-nursing-stud... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2014-12-10 01:26:15 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- You could put: found ... , [with her face partially] skinned, found ... , [with her face (partially) flayed, The square brackets indicate added material. I still prefer flayed, not skinned (and especially not peeled), but that's just a personal preference. |
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