I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grizzled hair/head/beard etc
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a grizzled old man
grow a beard/moustache
scraggly...beard
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his scraggly gray beard
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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The father, black beard full of snow shards, watched the youngest son, watched him work.
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Gary has a tightly trimmed black beard .
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He had a pointed black beard , and an earring dangled in one ear.
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His face was covered by a thick black beard with tiny flecks of gray in it.
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I remember little about him except that he had a black beard flecked with grey, and gave me oranges.
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The black beard , for example, and the overly bushy eyebrows.
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He was a tall, handsome man, with a full black beard .
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He was a small fellow, deeply suntanned, with a little black beard and fiery dark eyes.
dark
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He was a small stubby man with glasses and a trimmed dark beard .
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He clearly viewed my sharp nose and dark beard in a more favorable light than the starlets had.
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His dark hair and even darker beard do nothing to assuage her discomfort.
full
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His expression was unreadable beneath what was now almost a full beard .
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His yellow teeth gleamed in the abundant black of his full beard .
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Shrewd in business, he had a ready wit and a distinctive appearance, with a full beard and piercing eyes.
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The boys were harangued by a man in a full beard .
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Mr. Stone was an old man with a full white beard although he had a daughter several years younger than me.
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He was a tall, handsome man, with a full black beard .
grey
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He was thin, and there appeared to be dark patches growing in through the grey of his beard .
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He was thirty-four, but looked much older, had a grotesquely humped back, a grey beard and droopy moustache.
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Mr Rockoff now sports a long grey beard and was often in evidence, smoking fat cigarettes.
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The menfolk have an aged, craggy appearance, being hunch-backed from their hard labour, and wear a long grey beard .
long
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It had a long white beard .
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On the way to the church, she ran into an old soldier with a strange long red beard .
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It had been an old-timer, with a long white beard and a Gabby Hayes hat.
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He was tail and lanky and had a long reddish brown beard and lectured in a voice that was basso and happy.
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The longer his beard grew the more ginger it became; another bad sign.
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That was in the mid-1970s, when he wore his hair long and his beard bushy.
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Reaching the bottom he saw the Emperor Frederick with a long beard , sitting on a golden throne.
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The casement was splattered with bat lime, the wall covered with a long beard of it, almost to the floor.
red
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A meticulous tinkerer with a balding pate and a white-frosted red beard , he is as stern as a preacher.
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She does not succeed in persuasively outing the Don Juan / Superman with his diabolical red beard and Jaeger wool suits.
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He kept an eye out for fierce-looking highlanders with red beards , kilts and claymores.
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On the way to the church, she ran into an old soldier with a strange long red beard .
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Stoker was over six feet in height, with a red beard that contrasted with a full head of brown hair.
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The first thing you noticed about Rex was his bushy red beard .
short
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From his shiny, greasy, biker-looking jeans to his short , greying beard , he was muscle and bone.
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Then we dressed him in a new outfit and persuaded him to reveal his own short beard instead of the fake white one.
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His hair is thick but cut quite short and he has a short goatee beard .
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His bloke, disconsolate, questioned the judge and went off scratching his short beard .
white
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It had a long white beard .
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A Yippie showed up in a white beard , walking slowly.
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He had a neatly trimmed white beard and used a pince-nez for reading.
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It had been an old-timer, with a long white beard and a Gabby Hayes hat.
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A small, happy man with a white beard , he always wore the traditional grocers' apron.
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Mr. Stone was an old man with a full white beard although he had a daughter several years younger than me.
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Pinker in the face behind the thicket of white beard .
■ VERB
grow
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Either that, or he had only yesterday decided to bow to fashion and grow a beard .
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By 1966, they were allowed to grow beards .
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A bollard trying to grow a beard .
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Men get sea legs and become catlike and grow beards .
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Anyone growing a beard was immediately condemned as a dangerous left wing revolutionary.
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They wanted to know if he had ever grown a beard ?
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My grandma told my father off for growing a beard .
shave
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He had shaved off his beard , and his face looked less thin and less serious than before.
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Within a few weeks he had shaved off his beard and bought his first suit and tie.
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He had shaved off his beard again.
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He remembered, just in time, not to shave - the beard was needed for the Edwardian Ball.
sport
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He had no razor of course, so he sported a straggly beard and moustache.
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Farag sports a three-day beard and has a bandage stretched across his forehead.
stroke
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The MI5 man pondered for a moment and stroked his beard .
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That at least made Pinkus stroke his beard again.
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He laughed a bit and stroked his beard a bit.
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Exactly, White answers, stroking his beard .
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Tait stroked his beard again with long, elegant fingers, appraising her with colourless eyes.
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He stroked his beard and then scratched irritably through it.
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He stroked at his beard for a second.
trim
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Just three words of advice Ricky: Trim the beard .
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Gary has a tightly trimmed black beard .
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The younger men were cynically attentive, petting their carefully trimmed beards inspired by Edison Banks.
wear
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Now that he is wearing a beard , he looks just like Dana - the square-shaped face, the mouth, the nose.
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Some of their fathers wore beards .
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You first wear beards so that you can mix with these foreigners and appear as one of them.
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He wore a sharp little beard , though his eyes were sightless.
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The axeman wore the first beard of a boy and had big ears that stuck through his hair.
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He was white, tall, and wore a scraggy beard .
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The menfolk have an aged, craggy appearance, being hunch-backed from their hard labour, and wear a long grey beard .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beyond the great sweep of blue trouser and the distant clouds of sweater was a beard .
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But his beard seems to belong to another man and another time.
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Certainly with his long, jet-black, forked beard , he looked the part.
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Gyggle steepled his freckled fingers and tucked them under a tier of the beard .
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Models sported immaculate centre-parted shoulder-length hair and the beginnings of goatee beards.
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Some of their fathers wore beards.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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When a barrister comes to address your University or College law society, you can beard him on the subject.