"awful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

awful adjetivo

awful + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 128
awful lot • awful thing • awful truth • awful moment • awful time • awful place • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 27
(2) thing, fear, dread, horror
Kolokacji: 4
1. awful thing = coś okropnego awful thing
2. awful fear = okropny strach awful fear
3. awful dread = okropny strach awful dread
  • He knew, with sweet anticipation and awful dread, that one day soon they would be ready to share a bed.
  • But his mind was cold with an awful dread.
  • The earlier you can see it the better: then the awful dread of the unknown evaporates.
  • At other times I felt an awful dread, wondering if I had been tricked.
  • I sit at the table, and read what I wrote last night, and that awful dread begins to creep over me again.
  • But she felt only a cold, awful dread.
  • An awful dread had begun to churn her insides.
  • Characters reveal their secrets in rich local accents, looking over their shoulders with an awful dread.
  • Reaching the lab door, Jenny stopped, pausing, the awful dread suddenly ballooning.
  • Claustrophobia and an awful dread of being trapped in the toilet should the automatic door refuse to open were given as reasons for their reluctance.
4. awful horror = okropne przerażenie awful horror
(5) day, chance, risk
Kolokacji: 3
(10) mess, sight, carnage
Kolokacji: 3
(15) dream, nightmare
Kolokacji: 2
(16) mistake, crime, spectacle
Kolokacji: 3
(18) scream, joke, pun, fool, irony
Kolokacji: 5
(19) taste, fascination, loneliness
Kolokacji: 3
(22) hurry, disease
Kolokacji: 2
(23) weather, storm
Kolokacji: 2
(24) cold, heat, coldness
Kolokacji: 3
(25) possibility, choice
Kolokacji: 2
(26) management, name
Kolokacji: 2
(27) oath, curse
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + awful
Kolokacji: 5
look awful • feel awful • sound awful • smell awful • taste awful
adverbio + awful
Kolokacji: 10
most awful • truly awful • pretty awful • absolutely awful • perfectly awful • ...
awful + preposición
Kolokacji: 5
awful in • awful for • awful at • awful to • awful about

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