"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 55
(3) thing, effect, circumstance
Kolokacji: 3
(11) feeling, reality
Kolokacji: 2
(17) visit, encounter, meeting
Kolokacji: 3
(18) view, scene, background
Kolokacji: 3
(20) appearance, show, content
Kolokacji: 3
(21) technique, method, solution
Kolokacji: 3
(25) family, origin, home, name
Kolokacji: 4
(26) symptom, track
Kolokacji: 2
(28) treatment, relation
Kolokacji: 2
(30) adventure, project, invention
Kolokacji: 3
(36) song, lyrics, word, vocals
Kolokacji: 4
(38) father, son, parent, Jesus
Kolokacji: 4
(39) album, novel
Kolokacji: 2
(41) research, experiment
Kolokacji: 2
(42) works, plant, deed, escape
Kolokacji: 4
(43) marriage, ritual
Kolokacji: 2
(44) moment, period, youth, hour
Kolokacji: 4
(45) God, King
Kolokacji: 2
(46) patient, client
Kolokacji: 2
(47) village, city
Kolokacji: 2
(49) procedure, software, function
Kolokacji: 3
(50) claim, grant
Kolokacji: 2
(51) atrocity, corruption
Kolokacji: 2
1. describe atrocities = opisz potworności describe atrocities
  • He has had some trouble rebutting witnesses who describe specific atrocities by Serbian forces.
  • Mr. Christopher steadfastly refused to describe Serbian atrocities in Bosnia as genocide.
  • Looking rested and in his usual defiant mood, the former president of Yugoslavia cross-examined several witnesses who described atrocities in Kosovo.
  • This is an effective narrative technique because it corresponds to the subjects' dreams that they relate at the same time that they describe atrocities.
  • He describes the horrors and atrocities he witnessed.
  • Initially, the book was refused publication by the American forces occupying Japan, until an appendix was added describing Japanese atrocities in the Philippines.
  • It suggested as effective procedures at the public meetings the reading of letters from missionaries in Armenia describing atrocities and what was being done to help the victims.
  • On the tape, a political prisoner described atrocities committed on inmates.
  • Luka begins to describe the horrible violence and atrocities he witnessed - and says that he desperately misses cleansing his country of the "unclean people".
  • The diary entries, which describe atrocities in an offhand, almost jocular style, are translated and read in English.
(52) item, particle, unit, rock
Kolokacji: 4
(54) curve, electron, wave
Kolokacji: 3
(55) upbringing, training
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + describe
Kolokacji: 19
coin to describe • used to describe • try to describe • ask to describe • begin to describe • ...
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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