"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 70
(3) popular, unpopular, ideal
Kolokacji: 3
1. prove inadequate = okaż się niedostateczny prove inadequate
  • By then, however, the house proved inadequate for the volume of students.
  • When that plan proved inadequate, the commission tried a different approach.
  • The gun proved inadequate and was produced in small numbers.
  • Literacy efforts up to now have proved inadequate, at national and international levels.
  • This hospital served for nearly four decades, when it, too proved inadequate.
  • But this approach has proved inadequate for a number of reasons.
  • However by 1993 it was apparent that the treatment had proved inadequate.
  • This page has felt from the start that the Bush approach would prove inadequate.
  • When the big storms come, as they do at least 20 times each season, the system always proves inadequate.
  • As the church continued to grow the old buildings proved inadequate to meet those needs.
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
6. prove short = okaż się krótki prove short
7. prove uneconomic = okaż się nieopłacalny prove uneconomic
(21) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
(23) influential, powerful, potent
Kolokacji: 3
(35) vulnerable, weak, powerless
Kolokacji: 3
(37) resilient, eager
Kolokacji: 2
(40) superior, justified
Kolokacji: 2
(41) deadly, lethal, toxic
Kolokacji: 3
(43) actually, illusory
Kolokacji: 2
(44) worthy, suitable, unfit
Kolokacji: 3
(46) guilty, painful, uncomfortable
Kolokacji: 3
(47) small, fully, amply
Kolokacji: 3
(52) repeatedly, continually
Kolokacji: 2
(53) overwhelming, irresistible
Kolokacji: 2
(54) wise, unwise
Kolokacji: 2
(57) simply, merely, simple
Kolokacji: 3
(58) premature, initially, timely
Kolokacji: 3
(59) valid, untenable
Kolokacji: 2
(64) empty, fragile, meaningless
Kolokacji: 3
(66) apt, agile
Kolokacji: 2
(67) impervious, receptive
Kolokacji: 2
(69) robust, hardy
Kolokacji: 2
(70) palatable, disconcerting
Kolokacji: 2

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