"regret" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

regret sustantivo

verbo + regret
Kolokacji: 6
express regret • feel regret • voice regret • show regret • send one's regrets • ...
adjetivo + regret
Kolokacji: 41
only regret • deep regret • great regret • big regret • real regret • ...
(1) only, slight, little
Kolokacji: 3
1. deep regret = głęboki żal deep regret
2. great regret = wielki żal great regret
3. big regret = wielki żal big regret
4. profound regret = głęboki żal profound regret
5. deepest regret = najgłębszy żal deepest regret
6. mild regret = łagodny żal mild regret
  • I know he felt an enormous sadness, a fatigue, a mild regret.
  • Was it pain in her voice, masked over the years, or simply a mild regret?
  • She felt only mild regret, which she knew to be shock and drug combined.
  • He let his arms fall and looked with affection and mild regret at the landspace around him.
  • But, to his unconcealed surprise and mild regret, they didn't fire him.
  • She said it tartly, as if the subject was a matter for mild regret.
  • Thorby decided, with mildest regret, that his ability to fight would not be tested this jump.
  • My failure to hazard even so much as a plausible guess moved the don to a murmur of mild regret.
  • Death was speeding toward him on a dark horse and he found himself awaiting it with only mild regret.
  • Oswin went back to his work with mild regret at knowing no more, but dutifully.
7. main regret = główny żal main regret
9. extreme regret = skrajny żal extreme regret
10. keen regret = gorący żal keen regret
11. utmost regret = najwyższy żal utmost regret
(4) greatest, major, fleeting
Kolokacji: 3
(6) personal, vain, infinite
Kolokacji: 3
preposición + regret
Kolokacji: 8
without regret • with regret • of regret • to one's regret • for regret • ...

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