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vulture

/ˈvʌlt͡ʃɚ/ verbo C2

En español: acechar como un buitre, buitrear

  1. To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture. (colloquial, figuratively) · Rudy vultured when asking the girl out.

He/she/it vultures · Pasado vultured · Participio pasado vultured · Forma en -ing vulturing

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De la biblioteca

A red-veined nose jutted out like a vulture's beak, and two fierce grey eyes glared at me from under tufted brows.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 6 · B2
“How comes it that all do not retreat in aversion at sight of that flat, receding, serpent-like forehead, round, vulture-shaped head, and sharp-hooked nose, like the beak of a buzzard?
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 467 · C1
At the moment when she is struggling in the convulsions of death, a vulture is flying by (there are a good many vultures in Adelmonte’s country); this bird darts on the dead fowl, and carries it away to a rock, where it dines off its prey.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 530 · C1
Three days afterwards, this poor vulture, which has been very much indisposed since that dinner, suddenly feels very giddy while flying aloft in the clouds, and falls heavily into a fish-pond.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 530 · C1

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