"retain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

retain verbo

retain + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 192
retain control • retain power • retain ownership • retain one's name • retain one's seat • retain one's position • retain one's status • ...
verbo + retain
Kolokacji: 16
manage to retain • allow to retain • want to retain • try to retain • help retain • ...
retain + preposición
Kolokacji: 33
retain until • retain by • retain under • retain despite • retain for • ...
retain + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 23
successfully retain • largely retain • initially retain • generally retain • somehow retain • ...
1. largely retain = w dużej mierze zachowaj largely retain
  • She held the handkerchief, which had somehow retained its original form.
  • Was it possible she had somehow retained some consciousness during the transition?
  • But the people somehow retain a surprisingly strong entrepreneurial spirit.
  • She stumbled once, almost overbalancing, but somehow retained her feet.
  • Were it put up for sale, he added, "we would be failing in our responsibility to somehow retain that reflection of the past."
  • It turned out in season five that the Andromeda still somehow retained a connection to this black hole.
  • He managed to crawl out, right past Paris's feet, somehow retaining his dignity.
  • It was a difficult period in which to preserve any measure of faith, but the Mexican people somehow retained their resilience.
  • He now adapted this skill to the smaller form, somehow retaining a monumental effect.
  • He applied this skill to the smaller form, somehow retaining his monumentality of effect.
4. retained indefinitely = zachowany na czas nieokreślony retained indefinitely
5. barely retain = ledwie zachowaj barely retain
6. nominally retain = nominalnie zachowaj nominally retain
7. simply retain = po prostu zachowaj simply retain
8. automatically retain = automatycznie zachowaj automatically retain
9. normally retain = zwykle zachowaj normally retain
10. fully retain = w pełni zachowaj fully retain
11. retain unchanged = zachowywać niezmieniony retain unchanged
12. simultaneously retain = jednocześnie zachowaj simultaneously retain
(3) generally, narrowly
Kolokacji: 2
(4) temporarily, permanently
Kolokacji: 2
(5) officially, formally
Kolokacji: 2

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