"describe" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

describe verbo

describe + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 293
describe activities • describe species • describe things • describe people • describe one's experience • describe one's work • ...
verbo + describe
Kolokacji: 19
coin to describe • used to describe • try to describe • ask to describe • begin to describe • ...
(1) coin, ask, write, publish
Kolokacji: 4
2. try to describe = spróbuj opisać try to describe
3. begin to describe = zacznij opisywać begin to describe
4. go to describe = idź do opisywać go to describe
5. begin describing = zacznij opisywać begin describing
8. start describing = zacznij opisywać start describing
10. avoid describing = uniknij opisywania avoid describing
  • It quickly backed away from the idea, and officials are now careful to avoid describing any proposals as an effort to control the mosques.
  • But we're going to try to avoid describing specific encounters in sexual terms.
  • Metropolitan Police chiefs have been extremely careful to avoid describing this as "justice" for Stephen Lawrence's family.
  • While they may describe the work, they avoid describing their own responses to it.
  • She doesn't give the reader any hints on how this might be accomplished; presumably, one is supposed to avoid describing him as the Son of God.
  • He says he deliberately used the phrase, and avoided describing it as "chucking things in".
  • Care must be taken to avoid describing or showing suicide or self-harming methods in explicit detail, unless there is a clear editorial justification.
  • I think that the countries which are not large - to avoid describing them as something else - should weigh up this proposal carefully.
  • Developers themselves now avoid describing communities geared for active older adults as retirement housing.
  • The Russian military would gradually extend its reach into Chechnya but would be careful to avoid describing it as an "invasion."
(3) look, resemble, help
Kolokacji: 3
(4) quote, include
Kolokacji: 2
describe + preposición
Kolokacji: 45
described by • described in • describe to • described under • describe on • ...
describe + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 148
once describe • originally described • accurately describe • formally described • variously described • later describe • ...

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