noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
alter ego
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Gissing used his fictional alter ego to attack Victorian morals.
boost sb’s confidence/morale/ego
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The win boosted the team’s confidence.
bruise sb’s pride/ego
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The incident had bruised his pride.
ego trip
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Their singer’s on a real ego trip.
morale/ego boost
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The poll provided a morale boost for the Conservatives.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Surprising data from the machines can still clash with big egos that want to trust to old-fashioned hunches.
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But Rhee, self-righteous and unaccommodating of divergent viewpoints, had the biggest ego of them all.
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A big ego so utterly ungracious and another big ego, Niki's, that had to swallow that kind of shit.
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The heavily favored Cowboys dominated the news with their strong personalities and big egos .
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A big ego so utterly ungracious and another big ego, Niki's, that had to swallow that kind of shit.
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That, coming from one of the biggest egos in the paddock, was a bit much.
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Only by some one with a bigger ego .
male
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At college I had been thoroughly disgusted with the male egos that dominated the left-wing student politics.
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Ellen knew it was more an affront to his male ego than losing Jackie.
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The most important controlling factor in these families is not the male ego but hierarchy.
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The maintaining of the male ego in perfect condition remains an essential activity of the nuclear family.
■ NOUN
ideal
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Conscience is a function of the ego ideal , and is critical of failure to live up to the ego ideal.
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For those people whose ego ideal has ruled them with especial strictness, the group situation can appear particularly attractive.
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The ego ideal , or super-ego, results from two important factors, one biological, the other historical.
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The individual gains no narcissistic gratification from his ego ideal .
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Social feelings arise, too, through identifications with other members of a group who all internalize the same ego ideal .
problem
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I have no ego problems with people using my ideas to suit their tastes.
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But you see, for all the boasting, he didn't have ego problems .
trip
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My aggressive five-year ego trip along the path of separatism was over.
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Atlanta is on a massive ego trip , mixed with a congenital inferiority complex that makes Atlantans overly eager to impress others.
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To possess power is the ultimate ego trip for many people.
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The chance of an ego trip , to add to all the ones I've already made?
■ VERB
alter
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Equally Odette and her alter ego Odile attract the prince less through their enchanted beauty than through their artlessness.
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He was not much closer to Belafonte, whose alter ego he played in the show.
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Margara seems very much the alter ego of her creator.
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Straus was Ickes's alter ego a newspaperman, a liberal, a fighter, a curmudgeon.
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During the past couple of years, Jerry had practically become his younger alter ego .
boost
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Why would anyone renounce their entire career just to boost their ego ?
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This need for self-esteem can be carefully nurtured so that the horse will want to perform to boost its own ego even further.
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It made them Feel big, boosted their egos .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
massage sb's ego
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This organization spends more time massaging egos than developing new products.
sb's alter ego
stroke sb's ego
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Expressed in terms of individual psychology, the danger was one of dissolution of the painfully acquired superego and corresponding regression in the ego .
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He could deflate the most overblown of egos.
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He had ego and no ego, both at once.
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The ego will brook no delay, he wrote.
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To say that a furnace with a thermostat has a self is not to say it has an ego .
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Unconditional surrender was more than his fragile ego could bear.
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With all these men, however, their egos are clearly strong enough to overcome any residual fear of the feminine.