"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 • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 17

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 48

(1) strong, powerful, compelling, overriding

Kolokacji: 4

(2) sexual, erotic, romantic

Kolokacji: 3

(3) great, overwhelming, intense, fierce, keen, ...

Kolokacji: 15

(4) human, understandable, strange, illicit

Kolokacji: 4

(5) real, genuine, sincere, earnest, true, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(6) personal, individual, public, private

Kolokacji: 4

(7) deep, deepest, unaccountable, inexplicable

Kolokacji: 4

(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

(13) ultimate, American, basic, initial

Kolokacji: 4

(14) urgent, profound, primal, fundamental

Kolokacji: 4

(15) desperate, single-minded, competitive

Kolokacji: 3

(16) passionate, ardent, fervent, fanatical, lustful, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(17) greatest, pent-up, inordinate, excessive, sinful

Kolokacji: 5

(18) common, mutual, shared, collective, unrequited

Kolokacji: 5

(19) only, sole

Kolokacji: 2

(20) particular, general, widespread, universal

Kolokacji: 4

(21) carnal, physical, sensual, bodily

Kolokacji: 4

(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

(27) homosexual, heterosexual, homoerotic, lesbian

Kolokacji: 4

(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

(35) constant, persistent, long-standing, relentless, endless

Kolokacji: 5

(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

(41) long-held, fond, incestuous, absurd, misguided, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(42) new, primitive, raw, popular

Kolokacji: 4

1. new desire = nowa ochota new desire

2. primitive desire = ochota prymitywisty primitive desire

3. popular desire = popularna ochota popular desire

I understand the popular desire to have what we had before.
When the Court declares a statute unconstitutional it overrides current popular desires.
Romanticism led directly to a strong popular desire to bring about religious revival, nationalism and populism.
And recycling responds to the popular desire to conserve.
However, popular desire for unity was such that the party felt it could not afford to oppose it outright.
It leads to questioning, to a popular desire to take part in the decision-making process.
This revolt had broad support, though the upper classes were eventually alienated by popular desire to reform the whole system.
The opposition, however, is resonating with popular desire to hold direct presidential elections for the first time since 1971.
Clearly there is an overwhelming popular desire to fight terrorism and to help its victims.
The lack of clear leadership led to civil and military unrest, and for a popular desire to restore the monarchy.

4. raw desire = surowa ochota raw desire

(43) similar, same-sex

Kolokacji: 2

(44) childish, adolescent, youthful, newfound

Kolokacji: 4

(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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