I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
absolute/utter disgrace
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It’s an absolute disgrace , the way he treats his wife.
complete/total/absolute/utter silence
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They sat in complete silence.
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The silence in the room was absolute.
complete/total/utter confusion
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Candy's eyes showed her total confusion.
complete/total/utter failure
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The project ended in total failure.
let out/utter a cry
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Seeing the fields and mountains, she let out a cry of delight.
utter a prayer formal (= say a prayer )
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When she recovered, she uttered a prayer of thanks.
utter chaos (= total chaos )
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After the party, the whole house was in utter chaos.
utter/absolute nonsense (= complete nonsense )
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He said that the charges against him were absolute nonsense.
utter/total contempt
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Sally looked at him with utter contempt.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
chaos
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But when she entered the house, she was confronted by a scene of utter chaos .
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I went to rejoin the train and it was utter chaos .
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It looked like utter chaos to me, but organised chaos.
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She sat on the bed looking at the utter chaos around her.
confusion
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To another it might have seemed utter confusion , but Chen had been born here.
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It was total and utter confusion .
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At times these difficulties combined with a muddled administrative situation to produce utter confusion and dismay.
contempt
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Shortly after shooting them, Conroy displayed utter contempt for his two victims, the court heard.
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Having won their votes from the gullible, as well as the dedicated, the republicans now show their utter contempt for democracy.
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Treat him with the utter contempt he deserves.
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Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home.
failure
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On the face of it they were an utter failure .
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By his own criteria it was an utter failure .
nonsense
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Still, he posed several questions that he said proved the plaintiffs' case was utter nonsense .
silence
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To go on with the utter silence or to break the silence, pretending nothing had happened.
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When designer Rei Kawakubo tucks pillows under blouses and shows her collection in utter silence , simple clothes become disconcerting theater.
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He had gone from shouting to silence , utter silence, and had walked out of the house.
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The utter silence fell like a loud explosion.
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We padded through those quiet, leafy roads in utter silence .
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The young people were draped about the furniture or lay in couples on the floor in utter silence whilst the firelight flickered.
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But for the occasional bitow to the rear of the crowd, the Swan was a vacuum of utter silence .
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For a moment there was utter silence .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A specific point of view of a space, in a fleeting moment of time, could be held in utter stillness.
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He was forced to return to the earth alone, in utter desolation.
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Hence the complete and utter mental breakdown of whoever contracts the disease.
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Instead he would gaze at the jury, his face an impassive study in utter disbelief.
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She treated herself with what seemed like utter severity.
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They were ... yes I now concede, complete and utter bozos.
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We padded through those quiet, leafy roads in utter silence.
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When designer Rei Kawakubo tucks pillows under blouses and shows her collection in utter silence, simple clothes become disconcerting theater.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cry
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The cat crouched uneasily in her arms, then uttered a curious low cry and struggled free.
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Finally he made a noise, and Maritza turned around, uttered a little cry of thanks, and took the tissue.
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Gilbert uttered a strangled cry and leapt to his feet with shadow reflections of crawling rain on his spectrally white face.
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She uttered a great cry which reached up to the gods.
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She put her hand to her mouth, uttered a mourning cry and ran through the swing door to her car.
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Suddenly Dad uttered a sharp cry and staggered backwards, slumping against the wall.
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When it arrived, they uttered a great cry of welcome.
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The whole earth uttered a great cry .
name
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He would not utter those names lightly.
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A moment later Charlie heard the colonel utter the name of Captain Guy Trentham.
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It gave her infinite pleasure simply to utter Joss Barnet's name .
phrase
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Meanwhile, those garrulous starlets who utter a quotable phrase almost every time they open their mouths are few and far between.
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When they do utter word phrases , they tend to omit the verb endings, most pronouns, and the conjunctions.
sentence
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On second thoughts, she wished she had not uttered the last sentence .
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In order to utter meaningful sentences I must come to grasp my position as a speaker.
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She could not utter a sentence for giving a tinkle of value to some innocent word.
sound
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Paul Reichmann threw up his hands in protest at the suggestion, but did not utter a sound .
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With that he killed man after man, so skillfully that not one uttered a sound as he died.
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Dauntless merely uttered a gibbering sound and abandoned the argument.
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When she saw the car Irina uttered an extraordinary sound , a long raucous rapturous cry.
word
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Jed began to know where Creed wanted to go without a word being uttered .
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The first word I ever uttered was good-bye.
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Speechreading develops a sensitive awareness of the speaker, not merely of the words he utters .
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The magic words had been uttered .
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These words , uttered by Baron Parke in an 1848 case, still hold good today.
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Insolent words uttered in the arrogant consciousness of power were always heard in heaven and always punished.
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Day after day reels of tape slowly turn, recording every word uttered along these lines of communication.
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Try these strategies to prevent these words from ever being uttered:-First , make all rules absolutely clear!
■ VERB
hear
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A moment later Charlie heard the colonel utter the name of Captain Guy Trentham.
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According to his lawyer, Brooks claims he heard some one utter the N-word, so he stepped on the gas.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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No one had ever heard Thomas utter an unkind word.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But as they passed him, their eyes and gestures... silently declared what their lips were forbidden to utter .
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I am not free to utter any fancied measurements I please.
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I we pointed out that deictic elements of the utterances can only be interpreted with respect to the context in which they are uttered.
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Speechreading develops a sensitive awareness of the speaker, not merely of the words he utters.
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The peasants, having just come out to the fields, turn back, uttering loud cries.
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When he did utter a word or two, rarely, his voice was coarse and stern.