"dreadful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

dreadful adjetivo

dreadful + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 113
dreadful thing • dreadful place • dreadful day • dreadful mistake • dreadful moment • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(4) moment, stench, instant
Kolokacji: 3
(7) news, secret, word, warning
Kolokacji: 4
(8) sight, mess
Kolokacji: 2
(10) fear, apprehension, terror
Kolokacji: 3
(14) start, shock, blow, slaughter
Kolokacji: 4
(15) crime, sin
Kolokacji: 2
(16) dream, nightmare
Kolokacji: 2
(18) weather, storm
Kolokacji: 2
(19) headache, burden
Kolokacji: 2
(20) possibility, anticipation
Kolokacji: 2
(21) sense, realization
Kolokacji: 2
(22) danger, menace, peril
Kolokacji: 3
(23) story, tale, lie, rumor
Kolokacji: 4
(24) curse, scourge
Kolokacji: 2
1. dreadful curse = straszne przekleństwo dreadful curse
  • '14th April 1833: Appointed for a day public thanksgiving on the cessation of that dreadful scourge - the Cholera Morbus.
  • But in their ignorance and seclusion there was at least safety, and they were free from that dreadful scourge--"the malicious strife of tongues."
  • Some people," he said, "are not satisfied with wrestling with the almost insoluble problem of world security against the dreadful scourge of war.
  • In what will surely rank as one of the century's great medical triumphs, a dreadful scourge is coming under control.
  • "Free our people from this dreadful scourge, Your Majesty," Rolan answered, his eyes shadowed with sorrow, "and that will be payment enough."
  • Apart from people like Leitonen and Pablo, how many of us have been willing to deal with this dreadful scourge?
  • We must tackle a dreadful scourge, the sexual exploitation of children.
  • I think that we should step up our efforts to address this dreadful scourge, Commissioner.
  • I am not talking here about the common cold, but about such conditions as cancer, Parkinson's disease, AIDS, and other dreadful scourges.
  • The dreadful scourge of the rebellion would allow him to wield the kind of powers that even the maddest Emperor had not dreamed of.
(25) calamity, tragedy
Kolokacji: 2
(26) irony, pun
Kolokacji: 2
(27) cold, heat
Kolokacji: 2
(28) movie, novel
Kolokacji: 2
adverbio + dreadful
Kolokacji: 5
most dreadful • truly dreadful • pretty dreadful • perfectly dreadful • absolutely dreadful
dreadful + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
dreadful in • dreadful for • dreadful to

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