"contain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

contain verbo

contain + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 1074

contain information • contain ingredients • contain elements • contain material • contain references • contain sugar • ...

verbo + contain

Kolokacji: 15

try to contain • found to contain • seem to contain • released containing • say to contain • ...

Kolokacji: 6

Grup znaczeniowych: 4

(1) try, help, struggle, use

Kolokacji: 4

1. try to contain = spróbuj zawierać try to contain

2. help contain = pomóż zawierać help contain

Another factor that could help contain the trade deficit is growth overseas.
Even as others fled in fear for their lives, she would have precisely 60 minutes to report to Reactor 3 to help contain the damage.
They were said to help contain the bitter spirits of the dead and what had killed them.
All I'm asking you to do now is to try and help contain some of the damage you've done.
Because of your involvement the president brought me in to help contain things.
Yet here, too, government-funded systems appear to help contain long-term costs.
Glass shelves with raised edges are easy to clean and help contain food spills.
Quarantine will also help contain the spread after an outbreak.
Others went to Maine to help contain an oil spill.
The agreement with Uzbekistan may help contain one potential source of anthrax.

3. struggle to contain = walka o zawieranie struggle to contain

4. use to contain = użyj by zawierać use to contain

(2) find, believe, know

Kolokacji: 4

(3) seem, appear, consist, come

Kolokacji: 4

(4) release, say, publish

Kolokacji: 3

contain + preposición

Kolokacji: 47

contain within • contain in • contain by • contain among • contain about • ...

contain + adjetivo/adverbio

Kolokacji: 56

contain therein • barely contain • actually contain • originally contain • once contain • generally contain • ...

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