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 Translation for 'to sweep' from English to Portuguese
VERB   to sweep | swept | swept
sweeping | sweeps
SYNO chimneysweep | chimneysweeper | end run | ...
varrerto sweep
vassourarto sweep
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Translation for 'to sweep' from English to Portuguese

to sweep
varrer

vassourar
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Usage Examples English
  • 21 minesweepers and other vessels were fitted with "Admiralty Outfit QM" and, on 5 June 1944, 17 of these ships used it to accurately navigate across the English Channel and to sweep the minefields in the planned areas.
  • However, they finished that season three games behind a strong New York Yankees team that went on to sweep the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series.
  • The Rockies then proceeded to sweep the Philadelphia Phillies and Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLDS and NLCS and entered the 2007 World Series as winners of 21 of their last 22 games.
  • The "curling broom", or "brush", is used to sweep the ice surface in the path of the stone (see "sweeping") and is also often used as a balancing aid during delivery of the stone.
  • The Indian Ocean and its surrounding atmosphere still hold their heat, causing cold wind to sweep down from the Himalayas and Indo-Gangetic Plain towards the vast spans of the Indian Ocean south of the Deccan peninsula.

  • The purpose of the daily service, as taught by Nakayama, is to sweep away the Eight Mental Dusts of the mind.
  • They remain in still waters until the tide rises, ascending and allowing it to sweep them back into the bay.
  • Canadian and U.S. sniper teams and Afghan forces begin to sweep the Shahi-Kot valley area to root out rebel forces regrouping in the valley after the fall of the Taliban regime.
  • Increasing the area of the intrinsic region increases its stored charge reducing its RF on-state resistance while also increasing reverse bias capacitance and increasing the drive current required to remove the charge during a fixed switching time, with no effect on the minimum time required to sweep the charge from the I region.
  • A "laser broom" has been proposed to sweep space debris from Earth orbit.

  • On more than one occasion, the Berber tribes of the Western Sahara would unite behind religious leaders to sweep the ruling leaders from power, sometimes founding dynasties of their own.
  • However, one has to sweep the celestial object to ensure that the lowest limb of the celestial object touches the horizon.
  • Some turbellarians have a simple pharynx lined with cilia and generally feed by using cilia to sweep food particles and small prey into their mouths, which are usually in the middle of their undersides.
  • The Phillies went on to sweep the Reds in three straight games.
  • This made them a great deal harder to sweep.

  • The naval order of 24 October 1918 and the preparations to sail first triggered the Kiel Mutiny among the affected sailors and then a general revolution which was to sweep aside the monarchy within a few days.
  • Wind is quite rare; only sudden bursts of foehn or thunderstorms manage to sweep the air clean.
  • The ever-present dust was a continual problem due to the frequent high winds; so much so that people usually woke up in the morning covered from head to toe with a fine layer of dust, and they constantly had to sweep dirt out of the barracks.
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