Portugál | Angol |
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loucura noun {f} | madness [madnesses](insanity) |
manicura noun {f} | manicure [manicures](cosmetic treatment for the fingernails) |
matéria escura noun {f} | dark matter(particles of matter that cannot be detected by their radiation) |
o tempo cura tudo phrase | time heals all wounds(negative feelings eventually fade away) |
obscurantismo noun {m} | obscurantism(state of opposition to progress) |
oferta e procura noun {f} | supply and demand(economic model of pricing) |
procuração noun {f} | charter [charters](document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges) proxy [proxies](authority to act for another, especially when written) |
procurado adjective {m} | wanted(subject to immediate detainment) |
Procurador noun | attorney general [attorneys general](major government officer) |
procurador noun {m} | attorney-in-fact(US legal: ad hoc agent) lieutenant [lieutenants](person who executes the plans and directives of another) prosecutor [prosecutors](prosecuting attorney) proxy [proxies](agent or substitute authorized to act for another person) steward [stewards](any administrator of the property or affairs of another) |
procuradora noun {f} | prosecutor [prosecutors](prosecuting attorney) proxy [proxies](agent or substitute authorized to act for another person) |
procurando encrenca adjective | cruising for a bruising(following a course of action likely to result in injury or other trouble for oneself) |
procurar verb | look for(search; seek) pursue [pursued, pursuing, pursues](to aim for) search [searched, searching, searches](to look throughout (a place) for something) seek [sought, sought, seeking, seeks](to try to find) |
procurar briga verb | pick a fightverb |
procurar chifre em cabeça de cavalo verb | split hairs(to consider fine details) |
procurar pelo em ovo verb | nitpick [nitpicked, nitpicking, nitpicks](to correct minutiae or find fault) split hairs(to consider fine details) |
quem procura acha phrase | seek and ye shall find(one finds what one looks for) |
sinecura noun {f} | sinecure [sinecures](a position that requires no work but still gives a payment) |