"affection" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

affection sustantivo

affection + verbo
Kolokacji: 3
Affection goes • affection grows • affection develops
verbo + affection
Kolokacji: 23
show affection • feel affection • win one's affection • express affection • return one's affection • ...
adjetivo + affection
Kolokacji: 61
great affection • deep affection • genuine affection • real affection • mutual affection • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 14
(6) obvious, evident, palpable
Kolokacji: 3
(10) sisterly, brotherly
Kolokacji: 2
1. sisterly affection = siostrzana sympatia sisterly affection
2. brotherly affection = braterska sympatia brotherly affection
  • Suddenly I feel a rush of brotherly affection for him.
  • They threw their arms around each other in a great bear hug of brotherly affection.
  • But she had intervened and had made it possible for them to develop their brotherly affection.
  • Combined with this "mutual watchfulness" was a good deal of brotherly affection and sympathetic understanding.
  • Beaumont rules the city from a wheelchair with the support of his sister, for whom he seems to have more than brotherly affection.
  • Would he ever feel anything other than brotherly affection toward her?
  • Instead, it approaches Boy, and the two share some brotherly affection.
  • He is unworthy of her love and can only offer her brotherly affection.
  • But his initial attraction had become brotherly affection over the years.
  • Surely you couldn't have thought I bore them any brotherly affection.
(11) lifelong, lasting, enduring
Kolokacji: 3
(12) undying, boundless
Kolokacji: 2
(13) nostalgic, wistful
Kolokacji: 2
(14) grudging, tolerant
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + affection
Kolokacji: 13
with affection • of affection • for one's affections • in affection • to affection • ...

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