Swedish-English translations for bråte

• raffle
  He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.
  They raffled off four gift baskets.
  to raffle for a watch
• lumber
  They’ve lumbered me with all these suitcases
  I got lumbered with that boring woman all afternoon
  to lumber up a room
• rubble
  You cannot expect people from Oxfam and Save the Children and other such organisations to be driving tractors and lifting heavy rubble. Man kan inte förvänta sig att folk från Oxfam, Rädda barnen och liknande organisationer ska köra traktorer och lyfta bort tung bråte.
  One thing is clear, as my fellow Members have said: there are 20 million tonnes of rubble to clear and only 5%, a minute part, has been cleared in a year. En sak står klar, som mina kollegor redan har nämnt: Det finns 20 miljoner ton bråte att rensa bort, och endast fem procent, en bråkdel, har rensats bort på ett år.
• tangle
  Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind
  Dont tangle with someone three times your size
  He tangled with the law

Examples

• På gården fanns det fullt med bråte.

Related words

• byggbråte
• timmerbråte