"close" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

close verbo

close + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 93
close factories • close one's eyes • close one's mouth • close one's hand • close one's office • close one's borders • close one's fingers • ...
verbo + close
Kolokacji: 32
help close • plan to close • forced to close • scheduled to close • begin closing • try to close • decide to close • expected to close • ...
close + preposición
Kolokacji: 56
close down • close behind • closed until • close up • close off • close out • ...
close + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 107
temporarily closed • permanently closed • officially closed • tightly closed • close early • slowly close • quickly close • finally close • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 25
(1) temporarily, permanently
Kolokacji: 2
(2) officially, formally
Kolokacji: 2
(6) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(7) fast, carefully, tight
Kolokacji: 3
(10) immediately, instantly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) firmly, smoothly, hard
Kolokacji: 3
(12) quietly, soundlessly
Kolokacji: 2
(14) shortly, briefly, silently
Kolokacji: 3
(15) indefinitely, definitively
Kolokacji: 2
(18) high, low
Kolokacji: 2
(19) virtually, essentially
Kolokacji: 2
(20) barely, hardly, scarcely
Kolokacji: 3
1. close convulsively = blisko konwulsyjnie close convulsively
  • Remembering her tears, his hand closed convulsively over the soaked tissue.
  • Joe found his hands closing convulsively on a handgrip.
  • She barely even noticed what it was covered with as it closed convulsively around her arm.
  • And he tore an entire section of bark from the tree trunk as his hand closed convulsively.
  • Her hand closed convulsively on the kit-then she forced herself to release it.
  • He did not gesticulate with his hands, but kept them on his knees, where they opened and closed convulsively.
  • Irene's fingers, questing in the bag, closed convulsively on a seed.
  • For a moment, his eyes opened and closed convulsively.
  • The security force drew back, hands convulsively closing on their weapons as he swung through.
  • His legs were short, and the great hands opened and closed convulsively.
2. steadily close = stale blisko steadily close
3. regularly closed = regularnie zamknąć regularly closed
(24) relentlessly, repeatedly
Kolokacji: 2
(25) obediently, stubbornly
Kolokacji: 2

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