"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
(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
1. awful oath = okropna przysięga awful oath
  • At length his fasts and instruction were completed; his trials had been passed and the hour came when he must make his last confession to the goddess and swear the awful oaths to her very self.
  • Here followed an awful oath, and such a blow upon the bare neck of the unhappy child, that she left her hold of the barrel, and fairly shrieked with pain.
  • So, while the moon grew gray with the nearness of dawn, I made them swear an awful oath of secrecy, and enjoined them to bear witness to the statement I must make before the monks of Perigon.
  • "Swear it to me with your most awful oath."
  • Tyrus* viscera roiled; family, he heard EreJzan breathing a most awful oath.
  • That awful oath, sworn so solemnly, had been her relentless tyrant; and her religion--a religion of superstition and of false ideals--had blinded her, and dragged her into crime.
  • The group bound themselves by awful Lokhar oaths.
  • The bolt on the bronze portal clanged and Conan stifled an awful oath as he saw Octavia come into the room.
  • With a volley of awful oaths, his face suffused with the scarlet of mortification and rage, the captain regained his feet, and with a terrific blow felled the sailor to the deck.
2. awful curse = okropne przekleństwo awful curse
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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