adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a heroic act (= very brave )
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Ordinary people sometimes find themselves performing heroic acts.
heroic couplet
heroic resistance
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The threat of invasion drew the Greek cities together in heroic resistance to the Persians.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Though springing from Genesis, this is at once more ambiguous, more heroic , and more humane.
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Sometimes, cowboys use more heroic life-saving measures, lifting weak cattle into trucks so they can be hauled to greener pastures.
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Feeling that combat was more heroic than art they sacrificed their creativity in this way.
most
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Bob Champion's success on Aldaniti in 1981 provided one of the most heroic chapters in racing history.
■ NOUN
deed
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Wagner in his day had preached purity of heart and heroic deeds .
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The wicked characters are imprisoned, and Wilkin is made a captain for his heroic deed in battle.
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It would, to Rab, be an heroic deed if the man had fought.
effort
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Daisy, ever hopeful and optimistic, however, still made heroic efforts to win Perdita round.
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Despite heroic efforts by the scientists, these virgin-born turkeys rarely progressed beyond the stage of simple embryos.
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At times, by dint of heroic effort , the Elves achieved a breathing space and cleared their lands.
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It was a heroic effort to try to evaluate business units using some notion of market valuation.
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In gratitude for his heroic efforts over Henry the police had apprehended Duggie on the towpath.
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Nevertheless an heroic effort is being made to lick Expo into shape before Easter Monday.
figure
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Other heroic figures which figure in the monthly ritual dances are equipped in the same way.
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That heroic figure never appears onscreen.
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That man was scarcely a heroic figure , however genial and powerful in manpower, but never ambitious to lead.
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If the man is held up constantly as a heroic figure , excuses are made for him.
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The Reich chapter, by contrast, draws us away from individual heroic figures towards collective creativity.
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Second, our victory in the Cold War has reduced the need to make our leaders into heroic figures .
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Leapor portrays Edwy as a heroic figure and a good husband.
struggle
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This is not what the Suffragettes, and others, envisaged in their heroic struggles to win the vote.
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The strategy developed by the revolutionary populists reflected the same mixture of heroic struggle for the peasantry's cause and utopian illusions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Although the nationalists put up heroic resistance, the revolt was crushed in three days.
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Amy Johnson is famous for her heroic solo flight from Britain to Australia in 1930.
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Soldiers made heroic efforts to get all the civilians out of the city.
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The film is a warm tribute to the heroic pilots of C Division.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And perhaps their finest stroke was the casting of rapper Ice-T as a heroic , charismatic crack baron.
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But few were ready to engage in heroic resistance to the last.
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It represents a heroic transcendence of the most powerful drives of men.
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One of their sons, whom I particularly envied for his heroic biceps, was named Eleven.
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Peter de la Billiere, will no longer be welcome at the table of the heroic fighting force he once led.
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The wicked characters are imprisoned, and Wilkin is made a captain for his heroic deed in battle.