"short" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

short adjetivo

short + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 688
short story • short time • short film • short period • short distance • short term • short supply • short notice • short hair • short run • ...
verbo + short
Kolokacji: 20
fall short • cut short • stop short • grow shorter • run short • sell short • ...
adverbio + short
Kolokacji: 63
relatively short • far short • fairly short • extremely short • slightly shorter • well short • somewhat shorter • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
(1) relatively, comparatively
Kolokacji: 2
(4) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) increasingly, progressively
Kolokacji: 2
1. dangerously short = niebezpiecznie krótki dangerously short
2. severely short = poważnie krótki severely short
  • Many are severely short of breath and cannot walk from the couch to the kitchen without feeling exhausted.
  • First, the regulators are still severely short staffed.
  • Fuel supplies were severely short, and people burned whatever they could to survive the harsh Polish winter.
  • His hair had been cut severely short at the time and he had worn glasses.
  • The negotiations broke down, and the Burmese decided to fight on despite the fact that the army was severely short of experienced men and arms.
  • The next day he was admitted with blood clots in his lungs, a potentially life-threatening condition that left him severely short of breath.
  • But he said at least one of the machines would be in severely short supply.
  • The station was severely short of help and the missionaries there were exhausted.
  • The dark hair is brushed with gray now, but it is still worn cropped severely short.
  • Hospitals are severely short of nurses, and several have tried, so far with little success, to import some from South Africa.
3. perilously short = niebezpiecznie krótki perilously short
(13) blessedly, damned
Kolokacji: 2
short + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
short of • short on • short for • short by • short in • ...

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