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"earthquake" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

earthquake sustantivo

sustantivo + earthquake
Kolokacji: 30
magnitude earthquake • Haiti earthquake • San Francisco earthquake • San Jose Earthquake • Indian Ocean earthquake • ...
earthquake + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 31
earthquake victim • earthquake damage • earthquake zone • earthquake activity • earthquake engineering • ...
earthquake + verbo
Kolokacji: 46
earthquake destroys • earthquake strikes • earthquake causes • earthquake occurs • earthquake hits • earthquake damages • ...
frequent collocations
Kolokacji: 10
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 8
(1) destroy, kill, devastate, ravage, wreck
Kolokacji: 5
1. earthquake destroys = trzęsienie ziemi niszczy earthquake destroys
Earthquake destroys
2. earthquake kills = zabicia trzęsienia ziemi earthquake kills
Earthquake kills
3. earthquake devastates = trzęsienie ziemi pustoszy earthquake devastates
4. earthquake ravages = trzęsienie ziemi pustoszy earthquake ravages
5. earthquake wrecks = wraki trzęsienia ziemi earthquake wrecks
  • The mother and her newborn slept in the car for three days after the earthquake wrecked their house in this agricultural town 95 miles south of San Francisco.
  • An earthquake wrecked the city in A.D. 363 and it never recovered.
  • Unfortunately, the earthquake had overturned and wrecked the cart.
  • The bureau had moved there in '93 after the earthquake wrecked the sheriff's department building downtown.
  • IF an earthquake had wrecked the Los Angeles Convention Center last week, there would be no special-effects industry.
  • Lasting little more than a minute, the earthquake wrecked 490 blocks, toppled a total of 25,000 buildings, broke open gas mains, cut off electric power lines, and effectively destroyed the gold rush capital that had stood there for a half century.
(2) strike, cause, hit, come, leave, ...
Kolokacji: 14
(3) occur, trigger, happen, begin, originate, ...
Kolokacji: 7
(4) damage, shatter, change, disrupt, crack, ...
Kolokacji: 8
(5) shake, rock, jolt, topple, rattle
Kolokacji: 5
(6) measure, last
Kolokacji: 2
(7) register, send, inflict
Kolokacji: 3
(8) level, rupture
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + earthquake
Kolokacji: 13
cause earthquakes • earthquake recorded • predict earthquakes • produce earthquakes • trigger earthquakes • ...
adjetivo + earthquake
Kolokacji: 49
major earthquake • devastating earthquake • large earthquake • great earthquake • strong earthquake • powerful earthquake • ...
preposición + earthquake
Kolokacji: 18
for earthquakes • to earthquakes • with earthquakes • following the earthquake • after the earthquake • ...

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