| Formas compostas: |
| Inglês | Português |
| a dead man n | figurative, slang (in serious trouble) (figurado, gíria) | homem morto sm + adj |
| Touch me again and you're a dead man! |
| billabong n | AU (water: pool) (hidrologia) | braço morto sm |
| billabong n | AU (river branch) (hidrologia) | braço morto sm |
| bored to death adj | figurative, informal (be weary from lack of stimulation) (figurado, informal) | morto de tédio, morrendo de tédio loc adj |
| Sitting in class, he was bored to death with the teacher's lecture. You looked bored to death during that play! |
| coast vi | (move without power) | deslizar v int |
| (carro, etc) | descer em ponto morto expres v |
| She coasted downhill on the bicycle. |
| Ela deslizou ladeira abaixo na sua bicicleta. |
| O motor desligou e nós deslizamos até parar. |
| dead and buried adj | (dead, deceased) (falecido, finado) | morto e enterrado |
| I remember my fourth grade teacher, but she's long since been dead and buried I'm sure. |
| dead and buried adj | (no longer in effect) (em vigor) | morto e enterrado |
| That law is dead and buried. |
| the Dead Sea n | (body of salt water in Middle East) | Mar Morto sp |
| The Dead Sea is a huge salt lake between Israel and Jordan lying 422 meters below sea level. |
| dead to the world adj | slang, figurative (asleep) (dormir profundamente) | estar morto para o mundo |
| Once he is asleep he is dead to the world: we can make noise if we want. |
dead weight,
also US: deadweight n | (sth heavy, motionless) | peso morto loc sm |
dead weight,
also US: deadweight n | (weight of vehicle without a load) (peso de um veículo sem carga) | peso morto loc sm |
dead weight,
also US: deadweight n | (fixed weight on structure or equipment) (peso fixo de uma estrutura ou aparelho) | peso morto sm + adj |
| deadwood n | figurative (sth superfluous) (fig., coisa supérflua) | peso morto loc sm |
| deadwood n | figurative (sb not productive) (fig., pessoa improdutiva) | peso morto loc sm |
| drop dead vi + adj | (die suddenly) (morrer subitamente) | cair morto expres |
| He dropped dead of a heart attack. |
| fallen adj | euphemism (soldier: killed in battle) (militar) | morto em combate loc adj |
| The city built a memorial to its fallen soldiers. |
| A cidade construiu um memorial para honrar os soldados mortos em combate. |
| the fallen npl | euphemism (soldiers killed in battle) (eufemismo) | morto em combate adj |
| The graveyard had gravestones for each of the fallen and missing. |
| O cemitério tinha lápides para cada um dos soldados mortos em combate e desaparecidos. |
| get killed v expr | informal (die) | acabar morto expres v |
| You'll get killed if you keep driving that fast! If you drive while drunk you can get killed. |
| Você vai acabar morto se continuar dirigindo tão rápido! Se você dirige bêbado, pode acabar morto. |
| get killed v expr | informal (be killed by sb, sth) (informal) | ser morto loc v |
| ser assassinado loc v |
| He got killed by a stray bullet. |
half dead,
half-dead adj | figurative (exhausted) (figurado) | meio morto loc adj |
| David continued the climb, although he was half dead from the effort; he had to make it to the top. |
| idle vi | (engine: be left running) (motor) | em ponto morto expres |
| Peter let his car idle at the traffic light. |
| Peter deixou seu carro em ponto morto no semáforo. |
| lay sb out vtr phrasal sep | (prepare body for funeral) (preparar alguém para ser sepultado) | vestir o morto vt + sm |
| The funeral home is going to lay my dead aunt out for viewing tomorrow. |
| A funerária irá vestir minha tia morta para o velório amanhã. |
roadkill,
road kill n | uncountable (animal killed by traffic) | bicho morto sm |
| Yuck, there's some roadkill over there. |
| I can't believe how much roadkill we've seen on this journey. |
| Eca, há algum bicho morto por aí. Não acredito em quantos bichos mortos vimos nessa viagem. |
| scared stiff adj | informal (terrified) (figurado) | morto de medo loc adj |
| The children were scared stiff of the man with the chainsaw. |
| scared to death adj | figurative, informal (terrified) (figurado) | morto de medo loc adj |
| When I was a child I was scared to death of werewolves. |
| stillborn adj | (baby: dead at birth) | natimorto adj |
| (desusado) | nado-morto adj |
| The mother held the stillborn baby in her arms and wept. |
| undead adj | (fiction: dead but reanimated) | morto-vivo adj |
| The undead soldiers encircled the castle and began to storm the walls. |
| worried sick about sth adj | informal (extremely anxious about sb or sth) (informal, figurado: muito ansioso) | morto de preocupação sobre loc adj + prep |
| Where have you been? You're two hours late - I've been worried sick! |
| zombie n | (voodoo: reanimated corpse) (BRA, vodu) | zumbi sm |
| (POR) | zombie, morto-vivo sm |
| A belief in zombies is unique to the Voodoo religion. |
| Uma crença em zumbis é única da religião vodu. |
| zombie n | (horror fiction: undead person) (BRA, ficção: horror) | zumbi sm |
| (POR) | zombie, morto-vivo |
| The film is about a deadly virus that turns people into zombies. |
| O filme é sobre um vírus mortal que transforma as pessoas em zumbis. |
| zombie n | informal, figurative (person: automaton) (BRA) | zumbi sm |
| (POR) | zombie, morto-vivo |
| I was so tired that I was wandering around like a zombie. |
| Eu estava tão cansado que estava vagando como um zumbi. |
