English-Portuguese translation for "bud"

bud {noun} [bot.]

bud {noun} [bot.]

to bud [budded|budded] {vb} (also: to flower, to blossom, to burgeon, to thrive)

to bud [budded|budded] {vb} (also: to germinate, to shot, to shoot forth, to sprout)

to bud [budded|budded] {vb} [bot.]

     cotton bud

     to nip in the bud

     to nip something in the bud

This is by a duo, Michael Abernathy and Bud Holland.

Any inclination to abuse alcohol must be nipped in the bud.

These babies make my taste buds do double daffies, for gosh sakes.

Now, I believe that problems should be nipped in the bud.

That is why it is our generation's common task to nip anti-Semitism in the bud.

Taiwan is a budding democracy with which we maintain sound economic ties.

Credit to you once again, Mr Verhofstadt, for having nipped this in the bud.

Their taste buds will no longer be deprived by Europe's chocolate police.

(Laughter) So my common sense, my good intentions, were in conflict with my taste buds.

This sort of tree and bud formation indicates there's inflammation; there's likely to be infection.

Risks therefore need to be identified early, assessed scientifically and nipped in the bud.

Hope of improvement threatens to be nipped in the bud if the Commission keeps refusing to look into the mirror.

This is a tragic example of arrested development, or a budding green revolution stopped in its tracks.

By nipping in the bud every prospect of peaceful means towards a better life, they had driven the opposition to desperation.

Consequently, more efforts must be made to nip potential conflicts in the bud as a matter of urgency.

In order to nip that sort of thing in the bud, we want the precise legal framework, which you have promised us.

The end of the Cold War saw the budding of hope for a peaceful world, and that hope is, unfortunately, waning fast.