"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
(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
1. constant desire = stała ochota constant desire
2. persistent desire = ciągła ochota persistent desire
3. long-standing desire = długoletnia ochota long-standing desire
4. relentless desire = niepohamowana ochota relentless desire
5. endless desire = niekończąca się ochota endless desire
  • From the depths of Gillian's consciousness, Empedoclesprojected his blessing; soothing thoughts poured across a waterfall of endless desire.
  • Professions that attend to New Yorkers' vanity and seemingly endless desire for pampering, for example, do relatively well.
  • I was tormented by endless desire.
  • So now the grey robes preferred more subtle, cowardly skirmishes in their endless desire for a universe where nothing happened that was not completely predictable.
  • Michael Hirschorn, associate editor at Esquire, said: "It's encoded in our gene pool, this endless desire to schmooze with other journalists, to navel gaze.
  • Since the introduction of the original I.B.M. PC, Intel had been able to ride computer users' endless desire for more processing power.
  • Like Portnoy, he is afflicted with "endless" desires that often take the form of "acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus."
  • Throughout my childhood, every Christmas, while endless desires burgeoned around everyone else, my grandfather wanted only two things: a bowl of oyster soup and an orange.
  • The genius lies in the endless human desire to improve.
(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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