"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
(19) famously, brilliantly
Kolokacji: 2
(20) correctly, wrongly
Kolokacji: 2
(21) properly, appropriately
Kolokacji: 2
(25) proudly, modestly
Kolokacji: 2
4. wryly describe = cierpko opisz wryly describe
  • The Village Voice wryly described this origin story as "way more than a lot of men do for their women."
  • Mr. Arakkal wryly described an Indian religious ritual where women wipe away chalk drawings of a cobra with sweeping motions of their long hair.
  • Ailments and Disaffection Last week, he was plagued by his chronically sore left shoulder and developed a new hindrance he wryly described as "a pain in the backside."
  • Or were they monuments to herself, the manifestations of a condition that one commentator wryly describes as "an edifice complex"?
  • As far as his guitar playing on the album, however, Mr. Haynes wryly described himself as a "paid accompanist."
  • Only occasionally is the dialogue pointed, as when Martha wryly describes what it's like to dine with her brother in the drab, wallpapery household they share.
  • In the sleevenotes of the remaster, he wryly describes it as his "second most covered song".
  • Never having written as an adherent of organized religion, he has in the past wryly described himself as a Baptist agnostic.
  • Ms. Robertson wryly describes the company's stance that day: "We didn't do it, and we won't ever do it anymore."
(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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