"press" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

press verbo

press + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 69
press charges • press one's hand • press one's lips • press one's face • press one's fingers • press one's case • press one's palms • ...
verbo + press
Kolokacji: 12
continue to press • keep pressing • try to press • want to press • begin pressing • ...
press + preposición
Kolokacji: 47
press against • press into • press down • press up • press upon • ...
press + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 71
press ahead • press hard • press forward • pressed together • gently press • press tightly • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 17
(2) hard, tightly, firmly
Kolokacji: 3
  • General Hancock has been heavily pressed, and his left turned.
  • The judge was not pressed heavily on controversial issues such as abortion or civil rights.
  • The clouds pressed heavily upon them, but produced no rain.
  • You couldn't silence it even by pressing on the strings heavily with both hands; he'd tried.
  • He tried to shrug off despair, but it pressed heavily on him.
  • The thick line, where she'd pressed heavily, had to mean 'no'.
  • Then the boot would press heavily upon the necks of the common folk.
  • This time he did not draw away but met her with hot, questing hands when she pressed heavily against him.
  • The deadness of the great stone walls pressed heavily on her.
  • He retained his dukedom until the Turks began to press heavily upon him.
4. press softly = naciskaj łagodnie press softly
5. quietly press = cicho prasa quietly press
(5) flat, constantly, steadily
Kolokacji: 3
(8) successfully, unsuccessfully
Kolokacji: 2
(9) freshly, newly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) immediately, directly
Kolokacji: 2
(12) sorely, painfully
Kolokacji: 2
(13) deep, deeply
Kolokacji: 2
(14) upward, downward
Kolokacji: 2
(15) perfectly, immaculately
Kolokacji: 2
(16) urgently, insistently
Kolokacji: 2
(17) publicly, privately
Kolokacji: 2

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