Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
escoara
English translation:
has leaked / has drained / has run off
Portuguese term
United Kingdom
Qualified
Native in: Portuguese 
, English
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, Swedish to Portuguese, and 11 more.
escoara
| 4 +3 | has leaked / has drained / has run off |
Carla Lopes
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| 5 +1 | had drained (into) |
coolbrowne
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| 4 | had flowed |
T o b i a s
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| 1 -1 | had seeped |
Jennifer Levey
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Nov 7, 2009 15:48: Carla Lopes changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/625790">Helena Grahn's</a> old entry - "escoara"" to ""has leaked / has drained / has run off""
Proposed translations
Portugal
Translating is my life
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal) 
Works in: Spanish to Portuguese, English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, and 6 more.
has leaked / has drained / has run off
Babylon Portuguese-English
escoar
v. leak, bail; buttress; drain, ooze; lapse, run off
United States
Native in: English , Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, Spanish to English
had drained (into)
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Jennifer Levey
: But it could also mean '... had leaked into..." (among other options).
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Thank you. There is indeed precious little context, but it’s enough to show that the other dictionary entries proposed (so far) for "escoara" don’t apply. In particular, "leak” would be a better fit for "vazar", not "escoar".
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T o b i a s
: probable
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Thanks.
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Chile
Human-scale Globalization
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
had seeped
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Marlene Curtis
: liquid that has leaked, seepage; place where liquid has seeped through to the surface of the ground
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