"lift" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

lift verbo

lift + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 129
lift weights • lift sanctions • lift restrictions • lift one's hand • lift one's head • lift one's arms • lift one's eyes • lift one's feet • ...
verbo + lift
Kolokacji: 22
help lift • try to lift • begin to lift • begin lifting • use to lift • ...
lift + preposición
Kolokacji: 46
lift off • lift up • lift above • lift out • lift down • ...
lift + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 70
slowly lift • gently lift • lift high • finally lift • carefully lift • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 17
(2) gently, high, quietly
Kolokacji: 3
(3) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(5) slightly, somewhat
Kolokacji: 2
(7) away, aside
Kolokacji: 2
1. barely lift = ledwie podnieś się barely lift
2. hardly lift = ledwie winda hardly lift
3. scarcely lift = ledwie winda scarcely lift
  • Henry had made much of the fact that Alice was feeling very poorly and could scarcely lift her head off the pillow.
  • I can scarcely lift my hand over my head without the sleeves binding me.
  • He could scarcely lift his leg high enough for the peg to clear the sand.
  • Those facing them were so packed together they could scarcely lift arms to defend themselves.
  • The Romans, it is said, could scarcely lift their arms to defend themselves.
  • In his right he bore a rock so heavy that he could scarcely lift it.
  • The long body, scarcely lifting the bedclothes, lay still as before.
  • "They were so heavy," he wrote, "I could scarcely lift them off the ground."
  • The big shot's knees were quaking, his hands could scarcely lift the telephone.
  • Six men could scarcely lift it; it was solid gold.
4. fully lifted = w pełni podnieść się fully lifted
(9) clear, literally
Kolokacji: 2
(10) straight, vertically
Kolokacji: 2
(12) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(13) temporarily, permanently
Kolokacji: 2
(14) actually, practically
Kolokacji: 2
(16) briefly, silently
Kolokacji: 2
(17) officially, formally
Kolokacji: 2

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