Portuguese-English translations for esticar

• stretch
  I think that might be stretching the Commissioner's powers a little bit. Penso que isso seria esticar um pouco os poderes do Senhor Comissário.
  Hearing the G8 communiqué on climate change being called ambitious stretches the English language almost to breaking point. Ouvir apelidar de ambicioso o comunicado do G8 sobre as alterações climáticas é esticar a língua inglesa quase até a um ponto de ruptura.
  Obviously, we need to stretch every euro to the full and deliver it with the highest possible quality and in the most effective way. Obviamente, temos de esticar cada euro ao máximo e distribuí-lo com a maior qualidade possível e da maneira mais eficaz.
• thrust
  Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.
  The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"
  Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.

Related words

• domesticar
• domesticar-se
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