"prove" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

prove verbo

prove + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 103

prove one's point • prove one's innocence • prove one's case • prove one's worth • prove one's theory • prove one's ability • ...

verbo + prove

Kolokacji: 14

try to prove • failed to prove • need to prove • want to prove • go to prove • ...

prove + preposición

Kolokacji: 31

prove beyond • prove to • prove by • prove over • prove against • ...

prove + adjetivo/adverbio

Kolokacji: 362

prove difficult • prove successful • prove popular • prove useful • prove effective • prove impossible • prove fatal • prove wrong • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 86

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 70

(1) difficult, intractable, recalcitrant, uncooperative, uncontrollable, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(2) successful, successfully, victorious, fortunate, fortuitous

Kolokacji: 5

(3) popular, unpopular, ideal

Kolokacji: 3

(4) useful, helpful, instrumental

Kolokacji: 3

(5) effective, efficient, contagious, efficacious, economical, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(6) impossible, unacceptable, intolerable

Kolokacji: 3

(7) fatal, disastrous, prophetic, unfortunate, unlucky, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(8) wrong, correct, accurate, right, incorrect, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(9) unsuccessful, fruitless, fruitful, productive, unproductive, ...

Kolokacji: 10

(10) true, reliable, tricky, misleading, untrustworthy, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(11) costly, invaluable, valuable, expensive, worthwhile, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(12) controversial, contentious, divisive

Kolokacji: 3

(13) unable, ineffective, useless, inefficient, ineffectual, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(14) false, untrue, unstable, faithless, volatile, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(15) elusive, problematic, troublesome, embarrassing, tough, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(16) inadequate, insufficient, hardly, inferior, deficient, ...

Kolokacji: 7

1. prove inadequate = okaż się niedostateczny prove inadequate

2. prove insufficient = okaż się niewystarczający prove insufficient

3. hardly prove = ledwie udowodnij hardly prove

4. prove inferior = dowiedź osoby o niższej pozycji prove inferior

5. prove deficient = okaż się niedostateczny prove deficient

While intelligence-gathering is as much art as science, we have proved deficient in both domains.
Although it eventually proved deficient in one crucial respect, its virtues deserve to be mentioned first.
He had tried leg-breaking for a Memphis loan shark, but again proved deficient when it came to violence.
Yet whenever he has steered in the defence trials, his helmsmanship has proved deficient.
During the late 1970s, the design was abandoned for a more traditional approach, as the open-concept design proved deficient in many aspects: notable, the leakage of noise from other classes.
Even the Actors Studio proved deficient in providing the ideal aspirant.
Stronger ontologies only tend to evolve as the weaker ones prove deficient.
Typically, young recitalists try to show their versatility by ranging widely through music history, and this can backfire when real stylistic understanding of any era proves deficient.
These plans led to the development of the American M2 mine, which was fielded in 1942 but proved deficient in combat.
Lavish in its depiction of surfaces - clothing, furniture, lighting fixtures - "Flowers of Shanghai" proves deficient in its revelation of inner lives.