adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be killed instantly/outright (= immediately )
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The driver was killed instantly.
die instantly (= as soon as an accident, injury etc happens )
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He was shot in the head and died instantly.
instantly recognizable
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His face was instantly recognizable .
instantly/immediately
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‘No,’ she blurted out, instantly regretting her response.
obey instantly/immediately
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He expected his orders to be obeyed instantly.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
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With four comms radios instantly available , we switch from McAlpines' company frequency straight to Heathrow.
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Yet it is instantly available , unlike official statistics that are always out of date.
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It is instantly available , and slides neatly out of sight when not needed.
familiar
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So Muthaiga Club is instantly familiar .
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The scenery is instantly familiar to fans of her work.
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A Shakespeare play is about motives and predicaments and feelings and personalities that are instantly familiar .
recognisable
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Many have instantly recognisable traits which will help when selecting plants from nurseries and garden centres.
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I had put the purple tinsel on to make my case instantly recognisable .
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The voice down the line was instantly recognisable , and instantly unwelcome.
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Alaia tops, Paul Smith suits, extravagant spectacles: the designers are an instantly recognisable breed.
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With its stainless steel body and gull-winged doors, it is one of the most instantly recognisable cars ever built.
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And it helps that they look so damned good-and are instantly recognisable in the car park!
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The latter will be instantly recognisable by the vibrations you can feel on the line if it is held reasonably tight.
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While chairman of the health authority he was instantly recognisable by the fresh, home-grown carnation he wore to work every day.
recognizable
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He was instantly recognizable in the small but influential circle he kept.
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Instead of tables of numbers, computer-based graphics can give instantly recognizable representations of complex relationships.
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Given like that it is instantly recognizable .
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Among the faces looming out of the night, and through the fog of my exhaustion, my host was instantly recognizable .
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All the instantly recognizable roads, houses, trees.
■ VERB
become
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The line became instantly popular and managements all over the world were impatient to snap them up whenever they were free.
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It instantly became a curiosity of rock lore, especially because pictures of the costumed, superstar event were published.
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The whole school would instantly become hushed and enthralled by the horror, watching.
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Now, for the first time, he saw the translation of the second message, and its meaning became instantly clear.
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This does not mean that you will instantly become enfeebled, relying on others to do everything for you.
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His 20 points against Oregon State a week ago were just 10 shy of his career total and instantly became Bruin lore.
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The financial interests thus gelled into four organizations that soon became instantly recognized household names and logos.
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It was here that they were forced to eat beef thereby becoming instantly de-Hinduized.
die
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Ian died instantly , Mark escaped with cuts and bruises.
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The man died instantly and his name was withheld while investigators tried to locate relatives.
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He died instantly along with some 15 bystanders.
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Police said all four died instantly .
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The man, in his late teens or early twenties, died instantly .
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The laughter died instantly and everyone waited in expectation.
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Most of the bullets struck his head and John Browne died instantly .
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Stephanie Kuhen was shot in the head and died instantly .
fall
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She closed her eyes and fell instantly asleep.
feel
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Though the rector had been here but once before, he felt instantly at home.
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In the lobby I feel instantly bereft.
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Cybil would be writing or looking for something in her notebook, and Simon would feel instantly better.
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I feel instantly unsteady on my feet.
kill
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Nadine was killed instantly and Deanne died in hospital four hours later.
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Park and Sheena were killed instantly .
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The aeroplane crashed and your brother was killed instantly .
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Both the Prince and his wife were killed instantly .
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Eight of the animals were killed instantly and the other three had to be put down.
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What had instantly killed the young Princess of Corinth could not kill Hercules.
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Geriatric nurse Susan, 23, was killed instantly .
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He was killed instantly , and two others were wounded.
know
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I knew instantly who the fisherman would be.
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For her part, Jacque Price said she knew instantly what had happened after reading the newspaper in March.
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He knew instantly which of the fourteen had to be phoned.
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I was afraid he would look at me and instantly know what had happened.
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She knew instantly , among the bewildering wall of cookery books, the precise one for me.
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He saw you in your red suspenders with gold dollar signs and knew instantly who you were.
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He knew instantly the driver was intent on killing them.
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He knew instantly that the eye had reacted to his presence.
recognised
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We go up to the wheel base and Yeb is instantly recognised .
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It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she'd seen it in the flesh.
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Roquelaure was recognised instantly by the head waiter who took them straight to a reserved corner table.
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It was as though her soul had looked beyond the flesh and instantly recognised its counterpart.
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The wine label repeated the same words in a floridly ornate script overprinted on a picture, which Sabine recognised instantly .
recognize
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We can, however, instantly recognize the actual instances where rules are broken.
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I instantly recognized that every computer user was now potentially a publisher.
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It can be instantly recognized by its bright plumage.
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Nevertheless, anybody who knows the market for such items would recognize instantly that I stole it.
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It is the kind of argument that any businessman in charge of even a medium-sized company would recognize instantly .
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The King instantly recognized it and dashed the cup to the ground.
respond
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Not every pathogen will respond instantly to events.
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It was to respond instantly to any complaint or grievance regard-less of the merits, and just fight the company.
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For the first time during the entire voyage, he failed to respond instantly to a request.
see
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Upon meeting them you instantly see what they look like, and quickly observe their facial expressions, gestures and body language.
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Ronni could see instantly what he meant.
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Sorting by date makes the most sense so you can instantly see what's most recent.
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Colour-balanced lights mean the surgeon can see instantly any colour changes in the patient.
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This can be useful if you're viewing directories and lists, as you can instantly see what you have previously visited.
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And she saw instantly that they were taken in Allen's Manhattan apartment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He knew instantly something was wrong.
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It was a head-on crash and both drivers died instantly .
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Sea snakes inject a poison so strong that it kills a fish instantly .
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They recognized him instantly .