"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 • ...
(1) relatively, comparatively
Kolokacji: 2
(4) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
1. desperately short = rozpaczliwie krótki desperately short
  • With the continuing war, we know our time is desperately short.
  • I wouldn't put it past him if he became desperately short of money.
  • East Africa's most severe drought in 60 years has left 10 million people desperately short of food.
  • But it is deeply in debt and desperately short of capital.
  • So the Poles, desperately short of food and arms, were left to fight it out to the bitter end.
  • For all the attention to education, universities are still in desperately short supply.
  • They are desperately short of players and the 'foreigners' rule hits them hard.
  • To him, two seconds was a desperately short time.
  • You know how desperately short they are of both labor and resources on Earth.
  • It became clear that he was running desperately short of time.
2. incredibly short = niewiarygodnie krótki incredibly short
3. impossibly short = niemożliwie krótki impossibly short
4. frustratingly short = zniechęcająco krótki frustratingly short
(10) increasingly, progressively
Kolokacji: 2
(13) blessedly, damned
Kolokacji: 2
short + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
short of • short on • short for • short by • short in • ...

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