"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
(30) eloquently, verbally
Kolokacji: 2
(31) rightly, fairly, justly
Kolokacji: 3
(32) beautifully, elegantly
Kolokacji: 2
(33) bluntly, candidly, pointedly
Kolokacji: 3
1. bluntly describe = otwarcie opisz bluntly describe
  • Both begin by bluntly describing the harsh realities of life as a cancer patient through the wry sensibility of a smart, sarcastic teenage girl.
  • When the trade was officially made, Jokinen bluntly described his feelings on the deal: "It's a brutal business.
  • Her husband was, as she bluntly describes it, "shattered."
  • For the same reasons, a 1999 German secret service report more bluntly described Liechtenstein as "a criminal state in the heart of Europe".
  • It bluntly described Mr. Echeverría's standing orders to Mexico's security forces.
  • Ron pulls out his catheter and bluntly describes his problem.
  • In a 1960 interview, Kanner bluntly described parents of autistic children as "just happening to defrost enough to produce a child."
  • Mr. Hoder describes the effects of mass production more bluntly: "People have acquired a taste for very thin, tasteless beers."
  • How refreshing to hear a politician who favors both abortion and the death penalty described bluntly as "pro-death."
  • The 2002 Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas bluntly describes the migration as a "disastrous failure".
2. candidly describe = szczerze opisywać candidly describe
3. pointedly describe = w sposób ostentacyjny opisz pointedly describe
(34) therein, conventionally
Kolokacji: 2

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