adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a barren desert (= where no plants can grow )
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Years of intensive farming have turned the area into a barren desert.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
land
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Your living water in this barren land .
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Soon barren land will begin to show signs of fertility.
landscape
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The Fannichs are left behind as the road from Braemore turns north-west and enters a wide and barren landscape for several miles.
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Miles flew by in the barren landscape , punctuated only by the carcasses of kangaroos on the line.
woman
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The relic there was credited with making barren women pregnant and then relieving the pain of parturition.
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Also patron of barren women and heirs.
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There a barren woman is a potential witch and punished with low status and harsh treatment.
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It can make a barren woman fertile.
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First licensed by Bishop Lacey of Exeter in 1436 it was used for special intercession by barren women seeking fertility.
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As a barren woman , boyish physically, and shy, I had not found meaning with Helmut.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a barren apartment in a poor area
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a pointless and barren discussion
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Intense heat had created a completely barren landscape, almost like the moon.
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the barren hillsides after the fire
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the rocky, barren slopes of the mountain
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From the approach Amantani looked barren , rocky and sparsely inhabited.
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Lacking its tumultuously fruitful influence, our mental lives would be almost as barren as the moon.
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Later the level was taken off left and right along this, only to be proved a barren string.
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Now a Victorian church stands amid the barren Moor, a mute reminder of the lonely hamlet's more romantic past.
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Sir Thomas Blount's half-hearted investigation into Amy's death was absolutely barren .
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The future looked bleak and barren .
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The huge structures have endless corridors, barren hallways like tunnels that turn back upon themselves, leading nowhere.