"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 • ...
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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 35
(1) once, formerly
Kolokacji: 2
(4) formally, officially
Kolokacji: 2
(6) well, easily, extensively
Kolokacji: 3
(7) fully, poorly
Kolokacji: 2
(8) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(10) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
(14) best, better
Kolokacji: 2
(15) aptly, helpfully, effectively
Kolokacji: 3
(16) adequately, inadequately
Kolokacji: 2
  • I cannot adequately describe them to you - you'll have to see for yourself.
  • Most important, many of the points demonstrated simply could not be adequately described with words alone.
  • "I can't adequately describe the pain that you feel to see this happen to your child."
  • And when I say a pass that does not adequately describe it.
  • There are others, including many that cannot be adequately described in a family newspaper.
  • Lives there the man who can adequately describe this Wonder?
  • Explaining how things felt with a new ability he couldn't adequately describe even to himself was difficult.
  • And "international terrorism" does not adequately describe what we are up against.
  • There are certain supreme moments that cannot be adequately described.
  • The debilitating effect cannot be adequately described in this short space.
2. inadequately described = niewystarczająco opisać inadequately described
(19) famously, brilliantly
Kolokacji: 2
(20) correctly, wrongly
Kolokacji: 2
(21) properly, appropriately
Kolokacji: 2
(25) proudly, modestly
Kolokacji: 2
(30) eloquently, verbally
Kolokacji: 2
(31) rightly, fairly, justly
Kolokacji: 3
(32) beautifully, elegantly
Kolokacji: 2
(33) bluntly, candidly, pointedly
Kolokacji: 3
(34) therein, conventionally
Kolokacji: 2

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