"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
(4) greatest, major, fleeting
Kolokacji: 3
1. bitter regret = gorzki żal bitter regret
2. terrible regret = straszny żal terrible regret
3. painful regret = bolesny żal painful regret
  • And regret, painful as it is, can inspire you to do better.
  • "Overwhelmed with painful regret," Chan bowed.
  • Judith flew to her feet and, as he peered up at her, Andrew knew the most painful regret.
  • Her head lifted so she could glare accusingly at that roughly virile face, tormented by this painful regret on top of her intense grief.
  • At last he remembered with painful regret the drunken sailor it had been his intention to roll.
  • Before he could stop her, she moved across the bed, biting off a cry of painful regret as she lost the heat of his body.
  • Tada then says that he was stupid and lived a life of painful regret because he did not go after the person that he loved.
  • While we cannot anticipate the result with but painful regret, the inevitable destiny of the race is beyond the power and wisdom of man to avert
  • He releases my hand, and says with painful regret in his gruff voice, "Not that I did a darn bit of good."
  • There is no way you can avoid a full measure of painful regrets and might-have-beens.
4. poignant regret = przejmujący żal poignant regret
(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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