"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
(21) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
(23) influential, powerful, potent
Kolokacji: 3
(35) vulnerable, weak, powerless
Kolokacji: 3
1. prove vulnerable = okaż się podatny prove vulnerable
2. prove weak = okaż się słaby prove weak
3. prove powerless = okaż się bezsilny prove powerless
  • Why had their men proved powerless to defend them?
  • Animal Control (in fact, the entire federal government) proves powerless against it.
  • The picture of the prettiest girl that ever lived will in the long run prove powerless to maintain the sales of bad cigarette.
  • Syria, which was deeply concerned about the flow of events in Lebanon, also proved powerless to enforce calm through diplomatic means.
  • But only I have seen a Q prove powerless against you.
  • But they have proven powerless to reverse the action, ordered by leaders of the judiciary, Teheran-based diplomats and political analysts say.
  • President Assad, an opponent of both measures, proved powerless to avert them.
  • But he proved eventually powerless, and Congress sent him an act of war effective on April 21.
  • Why was it that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective?
  • In the end, the wisdom of the East proved powerless against industrial-age neurosis.
(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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