"fail" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

fail verbo

verbo + fail
Kolokacji: 11
doomed to fail • begin to fail • cause to fail • go to fail • fail by appointing • ...
fail + preposición
Kolokacji: 29
fail during • fail at • fail in • fail after • fail to • ...
fail + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 98
fail miserably • fail utterly • repeatedly fail • fail completely • eventually fail • largely failed • simply fail • fail twice • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 20
(6) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(7) narrowly, generally
Kolokacji: 2
(9) hardly, scarcely
Kolokacji: 2
1. fail spectacularly = doznaj niepowodzenia spektakularnie fail spectacularly
2. signally fail = rażąco doznać niepowodzenia signally fail
3. fail dramatically = doznaj niepowodzenia dramatycznie fail dramatically
4. famously fail = doskonale doznać niepowodzenia famously fail
  • The only high-end console that plays a range of games over the Internet is Sega's famously failed Dreamcast, which is no longer being manufactured.
  • Despite the reputation of the Beetle showbag for ubiquity, comedian Rove McManus famously failed to find one when he visited the Royal Adelaide Show in 2001.
  • And Mr. Hogg's Isabella remains ramrod-stiff and standoffish almost through to the play's last scene, in which she famously fails to respond to the duke's twice-tendered offer of marriage.
  • Ruskin, to his misfortune, famously failed to grasp the value of the work of the American-born Whistler, regarding him as a dabbling provocateur.
  • In the UK, the pairing famously failed to reach No. 1 in the singles charts, stalling one place below Engelbert Humperdinck's "Release Me".
  • Samuel Barber's opera "Antony and Cleopatra" failed famously at its premiere in 1966, which inaugurated the new Lincoln Center home of the Metropolitan Opera.
  • Apple Computer failed famously with its Newton handheld.
  • Chanda detached 4,000 of his siege force in an attempt to recover Arcot; this attempt famously failed, propelling Clive into a more prominent role in India.
  • He famously failed in an attempt to win seven Commonwealth golds and the standard in Manchester wasn't quite the same as it is here in Beijing.
  • He was the hangman who famously failed to hang John Babbacombe Lee - "The Man They Couldn't Hang" - in 1885.
(11) entirely, alone
Kolokacji: 2
(13) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
(15) catastrophically, safe
Kolokacji: 2
(17) suddenly, gradually
Kolokacji: 2
(18) sadly, lamentably, tragically
Kolokacji: 3
(19) properly, improperly
Kolokacji: 2
(20) disastrously, unfortunately
Kolokacji: 2

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