"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
(25) calamity, tragedy
Kolokacji: 2
1. dreadful calamity = straszna klęska dreadful calamity
  • I am more pained than I can say by this dreadful calamity.
  • "This was a dreadful calamity," he told the House of Representatives the next day.
  • Some dreadful calamity will happen.
  • It seemed a small loss to others, but to Jo it was a dreadful calamity, and she felt that it never could be made up to her.
  • But how do you live, then, and how are you kept from the dreadful calamity that is now upon us all?
  • Other research demonstrated that should Canterbury Cathedral collapse in some dreadful calamity, it would actually pay the city to rebuild it.
  • This is a dreadful calamity which has befallen the human race, both halves of it.
  • It was not for long, however; for a month or two later a dreadful calamity fell upon Marija.
  • Blamed by most of their neighbors for bringing about the dreadful calamity, the knights had been driven from their homes by angry mobs.
  • "I hope so;" and with that the doctor departed, leaving Dan much depressed; for the loss of a foot is a dreadful calamity to an active boy.
2. dreadful tragedy = straszna tragedia dreadful tragedy
(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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