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English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | | English term or phrase: take in strays | | Violet was caught up in the maternal hold of a woman she’d barely met. Normally she didn’t like to be touched by strangers. An unexpected backlash, given her previous profession. But there was something warm and welcoming about Beth. As if she were the kind of woman who took in strays of all kinds. |
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 Teresa Borges
Belgium
Local time: 22:09
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46 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1
1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
2 days16 hrs confidence:
3 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +3 abrigar extraviados, desgarrados, perdidos, errantes, vagantes
Explanation:
stray - Dicionário Inglês-Português (Brasil) WordReference.com
www.wordreference.com/enpt/stray
stray - Online English-Portuguese dictionary. ... de rua loc adj. stray, adj, (not with others), extraviado, desgarrado adj. perdido adj. stray, n, (animal) animal ...
stray {adj.} errante {adj. m./f.}
stray {adj.} vagante {adj. m./f.}
http://www.pt.bab.la/dicionario/ingles-portugues/stray
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Adjetivo
va.di.o
1. sem ocupação ou trabalho
2. sem destino certo
3. diz-se de quem pouco se empenha em alguma atividade (estudo, trabalho, etc.)
http://www.pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/vadio
vadio
Significado de Vadio
adj. e s.m. Que ou aquele que não tem domicílio certo; errante, vagabundo: cão vadio.
Que ou aquele que não tem ocupação conhecida ou decente; ocioso, tunante, vadiante, inútil, desocupado: pessoas de bem devem evitar a companhia de vadios.
Que ou aquele que não trabalha ou estuda o bastante; preguiçoso, malandro, negligente, vadiote: aluno vadio.
http://www.dicio.com.br/vadio/
|  airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 17:09
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