broom

escoba

Utensilio de limpieza con mango largo y cerdas duras que sirve para barrer el suelo.

En inglés sencillo: A cleaning tool with a long handle and stiff hairs, used to sweep floors.

• Get the broom, please.
• She swept the kitchen with a broom.
• The old brooms were stored behind the door.

Sinónimos: sweeping brush

Expresiones frecuentes: use a broom, broom handle, wooden broom

barrer

Limpiar una superficie apartando el polvo o la suciedad con una escoba.

En inglés sencillo: To clean a surface by pushing dust or dirt away with a sweeping tool.

• He broomed the floor.
• She broomed the leaves off the path.
• Please broom away the dust before we paint.

Cómo se usa: broom something off something (He broomed the sand off the steps.)

Sinónimos: sweep

Expresiones frecuentes: broom the floor, broom something away, broom something off