English-Portuguese translations for crutch

canadiana
muletaA linguagem gestual não é uma muleta, nem uma cadeira de rodas. Sign language is not a crutch or a wheelchair. Voltando agora ao tema das quotas, estas são sempre muletas, mas podem funcionar também como pontes. Turning to the subject of quotas, these are always crutches, but they can be bridges. Concordo que é demasiado cedo para tirar as muletas ao paciente, mas acho que já é tempo de o preparar para caminhar sem elas. I agree that it is too soon to take away the patient's crutches, but that it is time to get him ready to walk without them.

A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg
Something that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk
A knee, or piece of knee timber
A type of cross formed from two C-shapes joined back to back
To support on crutches; to prop up
To move on crutches
To stir with a crutch (in soap making

He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.
Alcohol became a crutch to help him through the long nights; eventually it killed him.

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