"desire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

desire sustantivo

sustantivo + desire
Kolokacji: 3
heart desire • Streetcar Desire • consumer desire
desire + verbo
Kolokacji: 42
desire leads • desire makes • desire comes • desire grows • desire causes • ...
verbo + desire
Kolokacji: 68
name Desire • reflect one's desire • satisfy one's desire • understand one's desire • express a desire • state one's desire • ...
adjetivo + desire
Kolokacji: 168
strong desire • sexual desire • great desire • human desire • overwhelming desire • intense desire • real desire • personal desire • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 48
(2) sexual, erotic, romantic
Kolokacji: 3
(8) sudden, immediate, express
Kolokacji: 3
(9) natural, instinctive
Kolokacji: 2
(10) secret, dark, hidden, unspoken
Kolokacji: 4
(11) insatiable, unquenchable
Kolokacji: 2
(12) simple, mere
Kolokacji: 2
1. desperate desire = rozpaczliwe pragnienie desperate desire
  • At those times, it's necessary to overcome our natural competitive desires.
  • "They wouldn't respect one another if they didn't play with every bit of competitive desire they had."
  • "Both crime and genius are manifestations of young men's competitive desires to gain access to women's reproductive resources," he concludes.
  • Burton's intense preparation and competitive desire served him well.
  • One might have been a simple competitive desire to distinguish himself from and outperform his rivals.
  • Finally, they should encourage cooperative feeling, and curb competitive desires (Russell 1938:219-220, 222).
  • Some of Rivera's toughness and competitive desires were born because of the giggling girls.
  • Yount and Brett, close friends, spoke of how each admired the other's competitive desire.
  • And now my competitive desire really runs in design," as a golf course architect.
  • When you get on the court, it has to manifest itself in an intense, fierce, competitive desire.
3. single-minded desire = zdeterminowana ochota single-minded desire
(19) only, sole
Kolokacji: 2
(22) selfish, vain, altruistic
Kolokacji: 3
(23) apparent, obvious, evident
Kolokacji: 3
(24) female, male, feminine
Kolokacji: 3
(25) unconscious, conscious
Kolokacji: 2
(26) obsessive, compulsive
Kolokacji: 2
(28) slight, low
Kolokacji: 2
(29) innate, inborn
Kolokacji: 2
(30) irresistible, overpowering
Kolokacji: 2
(31) irrational, insane, unnatural
Kolokacji: 3
(32) unfulfilled, frustrated
Kolokacji: 2
(33) uncontrollable, perverse
Kolokacji: 2
(34) mad, frantic, feverish, sick
Kolokacji: 4
(36) worldly, earthly
Kolokacji: 2
(37) vague, palpable, faint
Kolokacji: 3
(38) lifelong, longstanding
Kolokacji: 2
(39) unsatisfied, latent, restless
Kolokacji: 3
(40) clear, pure, sheer
Kolokacji: 3
(42) new, primitive, raw, popular
Kolokacji: 4
(43) similar, same-sex
Kolokacji: 2
(45) inner, inherent, intrinsic
Kolokacji: 3
(46) deep-seated, legitimate
Kolokacji: 2
(47) noble, laudable
Kolokacji: 2
(48) contradictory, conflicting
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + desire
Kolokacji: 23
of desire • to one's desire • in one's desire • for one's desire • about one's desire • ...

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