I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
burn
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Now there are many mourners, who burn incense and cry out accusations.
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Imagine just inside the entrance to the Hall of Justice a head shop with burning incense and cops dressed as hippies.
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The alchemist would burn incense and douse himself in specially prepared perfumes before carrying out his experiments.
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Some people like to burn incense and kowtow to the book.
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Open it, burn the incense .
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The black clothes, the gilt, the icons and the burning incense evoke the paintings of Goya.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Coffee thermoses, incense pots, boxes of fruit, trays to serve it on, suitcases, prayer mats.
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He decided to return to Santa Cruz to start again, focusing on his incense .
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In the wind and cold I could almost hear her chants and gongs, and smell her incense burning.
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Meditation does not demand sitting cross-legged amidst candles and burning incense , muttering weird incantations.
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Not quite Eton or Harrow with incense thrown in, but close to it.
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We return silently down the path, the last rays of light clinging to the incense .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
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Pat was so incensed he got up at once and hit Jock, and Mrs Lennox screamed.
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I knew he was so incensed he couldn't control himself.
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So incensed are its owners that the controls are to be lifted, at whatever cost to the fish.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The zoning changes incensed nearby residents.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any breach of individual liberties affronts and incenses us.
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As Hall departed for the dressing room, incensed Everton boss Howard Kendall gave him a tongue-lashing from the dugout.
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Customers are often incensed with the poor interest rate they get on their savings.
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If you get incensed and act like an idiot, now there are too many idiots on the road.
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On the other side of the political aisle, an incensed Sen.
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Pat was so incensed he got up at once and hit Jock, and Mrs Lennox screamed.