WordReference English-Portuguese Dictionary © 2025:
| Traduções principais |
| countdown n | (backwards count) | contagem regressiva loc sf |
| | The crowd held their breath as the countdown to launch began. |
| countdown n | figurative (period before a deadline) (figurado) | contagem regressiva loc sf |
| | We're in the final days of the countdown to deadline, so we need to really buckle down. |
WordReference English-Portuguese Dictionary © 2025:
| Traduções principais |
| count down to [sth] vi phrasal + prep | figurative (prepare for, anticipate [sth]) | preparar-se vp |
| | | contar os segundos expres |
| | As soon as one birthday is over, Tommy starts counting down to the next one. |
| count down vi phrasal | (count back to zero) | contar regressivamente v int + adv |
| | The anaesthetist told the patient to count down from 100. |
| count [sth] down vtr phrasal insep | (count backwards to event) | contar regressivamente v int + adv |
| | It was almost midnight on New Year's Eve; the crowd in Times Square was counting down the seconds. |