"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
(11) entirely, alone
Kolokacji: 2
(13) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
(15) catastrophically, safe
Kolokacji: 2
(17) suddenly, gradually
Kolokacji: 2
1. suddenly fail = nagle doznaj niepowodzenia suddenly fail
2. gradually fail = stopniowo doznaj niepowodzenia gradually fail
  • The health of Theophilos gradually failed, and he died on 20 January 842.
  • For a man who created so many memories, his own is gradually failing him.
  • His strength gradually failed, and he died at Paris in 1655.
  • His health gradually failed, and on February 11.
  • He missed his work, and his health gradually failed him.
  • His health having gradually failed, he died on the 11th May, 1871, in the seventy-ninth year of his age.
  • Early in 1877 his health, which had been gradually failing for some years, began to give way.
  • His health, however, had been gradually failing, and he resigned in 1850.
  • His health failed gradually - according to some due to disappointment over the failed mission to Africa.
  • He died after gradually failing health in 1981 at the age of eighty-seven.
(18) sadly, lamentably, tragically
Kolokacji: 3
(19) properly, improperly
Kolokacji: 2
(20) disastrously, unfortunately
Kolokacji: 2

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