English-Spanish translations for vicious circle

• círculo vicioso
  ¿Cómo podemos romper el círculo vicioso? How can we break the vicious circle?
  Toda esta situación es un círculo vicioso. This whole situation is a vicious circle.
  Tenemos que poner fin a este círculo vicioso. We must put an end to this vicious circle.

Definition of vicious circle

• A situation in which the solution to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one

Related words

• vicious
• vicious cycle
• viciousness
• viciously