I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a light/pale colour (= not dark or strong )
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Light colours make a room look larger.
a pale moon
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Her face glowed in the light of the pale moon.
a pale reflection (= similar to, but not as good as, something else )
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The film is only a pale reflection of the book.
dark brown/pale brown
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His eyes are dark brown.
dark/light/pale/bright blue
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a dark blue raincoat
dark/light/pale/bright green
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a dark green dress
deathly cold/white/pale
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She was deathly pale, and looked as if she might faint.
deep blue/pale blue
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She looked into his deep blue eyes.
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The tiny child 's pale blue eyes stared up at her appealingly.
fair/pale/white
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I have fair skin that burns very easily.
light/pale brown
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a light brown jacket
pale ale
pale imitation (= something that is much less good than the thing it imitates )
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The remake of ‘Casablanca’ was a pale imitation of the original movie.
pale sunshine (= not strong or hot )
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It was early spring, and pale sunshine shone on the fields.
pale (= lacking colour and often not healthy )
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Her complexion was pale and spotty.
pale/dark
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His face suddenly became pale and I thought he was going to faint.
pale/silver moonlight
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The hills were bathed in pale moonlight.
sb’s face goes/turns pale (= becomes pale )
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I saw her face go pale when he walked in.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
rather
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He was rather pale , and tended to watch the policemen rather than Ewen.
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Connon, rather pale but perfectly composed, wearing a dark suit and a black tie, stood in the open doorway.
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Red of juvenile, both on crown and under tail coverts, is rather pale .
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Nick just seemed subdued, rather pale , still quite shocked by the crash.
so
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No one would take home a boy who looked like that, so pale and delicate.
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She lay asleep, so pale , so thin.
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She had looked so pale last night, so still, and incredibly beautiful in her trance-like state.
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His face seemed so pale against the dark of her graceful, delicate hand.
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To see you go so pale and still?
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Petey had a face that glowed in the dark, it was so pale , with funny bumps on his cheeks.
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Nobody had ever seen the Manager look so pale and tetchy as the morning after.
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He was so pale as to be almost transparent; she could see the bones through the skin.
very
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Her pudgy face was very pale and her eyes looked as bad as Jinny's felt.
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He turned very pale , and that gave me a moment of satisfaction.
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You are very pale and there are huge bruises under your eyes.
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Stick to very pale or clear shades.
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Mike's face was very pale .
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Sally arrived home late in the evening looking very pale and exhausted.
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It was very pale and had no expression, as though expressions were surplus to requirements.
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But she also looked, Meredith noticed, very pale and rather subdued.
■ NOUN
blue
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He threw my dress shirt over it so all was pale blue .
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He was wearing pale blue brushed denim pants and a pale blue shirt that made his blue eyes look nearly luminous.
cheek
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Smaller than Levant Sparrowhawk, with pale cheeks , pale tail and brown on neck.
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I reached out to touch its pale cheek .
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His pale cheeks had taken on a ruddy glow.
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His only movement was in the tears which crept down his pale cheeks .
complexion
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Ada was a particularly striking young lady, with a pale complexion contrasted by very dark hair.
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She has a pale complexion and hazel eyes.
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But the pale complexion will be masked in the make-up room.
face
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He could see their pale faces watching Jekub lurch towards them.
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Her thick dark hair was swept up in spiraling tiers above a too-thin pale face .
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He began to rub his jaw as if he was in pain; his normally pale face had turned white.
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Thérèse's eyes glared in her pale face .
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He touched it - the tips of his fingers made contact with the pale face .
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He stepped back at once, and the sweat of fear was upon his pale face .
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He wanted to stretch out and take that pale face between his hands and smooth the lines of grief away.
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Her lips were swollen against her pale face and the sight of her distress seemed to infuriate him more.
gold
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The rising sun slowly turns the drab greys and dull browns of the mountains to patches of pale gold and dusty pinks.
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Penelope saw that the sun was shining, a pale gold in the cool belly of the sky.
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Scant make-up was applied, and her pale gold hair was treated to little more than a few vigorous strokes of a brush.
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She held a book, reached out to a tall glass of pale gold wine, a twin to Jay's.
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Anthony is taking pictures of a faded blue warehouse door on which pink and coral and pale gold stars are hanging.
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A wonderful pale gold colour we felt it tasted a bit like a dry sherry.
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Her long legs and bare feet are brown; her eyebrows and the down on her arms shine pale gold .
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On the wall behind the plant she could just make out irregular painted spirals of pale gold .
green
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The carpet is pale green and scattered with Oriental rugs.
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Very pale green spots on the head and white spots on the body over a brown ground color identify this species.
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These ribbon-like leaves are pale green , with a prominent midrib and usually two lateral veins on either side.
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But every day we see more pastel patches of red, purple, yellow, and pale green of swelling buds.
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I think you should wear peach and cream and pale green , sage green, and grey perhaps.
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The flowers are a subtle shade of pale green , rimmed in purple as the days go on.
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There are two varieties: pale green , or dark green, thinner ones.
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The walls were washed a pale green that never looked bright and fresh and clean.
imitation
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But this time round, they're pathetic, pale imitations of the planet destroyers that went before.
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It had been a pale imitation .
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These, however, are but a pale imitation of the History file.
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To its critics, it became a mild tabloid and a very pale imitation of what was originally intended.
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These programs are still only a pale imitation of the original human operators, however.
light
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He looked across the sea: a faint glimmer of pale light was rising in the midnight-blue sky.
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The snow which had fallen the night before lay cold and silent, glittering in the strange, pale light .
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In the pale light he noticed his servant's face was ashen, covered with a sheen of sweat.
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There was a new moon, and its pale light cast soft shadows in the stillness.
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As it walked forward Blake saw a hand illuminated by the pale lights .
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Outside the moon shone down brightly, casting a weird pale light over the cottages and the trees and fields beyond.
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The pale light splashed over them, hesitated, moved back and went off again.
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One pale light shone at an upstairs window.
moonlight
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When we left the forest, pale moonlight reflected dimly on the frosty ground and it was easier to see.
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In the pale moonlight that night, we celebrated the beer run.
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The floor was dappled with pale moonlight , scarcely lighter than the shadows which mingled with it.
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She could see him vaguely now, white shirt gleaming in the pale moonlight .
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Only the wind and the gravestones, cold in the pale moonlight .
shadow
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The sort of integrated circuit being used was a pale shadow of the microprocessors that are manufactured today.
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If she had tried to present herself and not a pale shadow of Désirée she would have made more impact.
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Light from the bathroom filled the area with pale shadows and gave the damaged patches in the mirror an eerie silvery glow.
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Try using a paler shadow at the inner corner of the lids and blend to a deeper tone on the outside.
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The cottage blocked out the sunlight, seeming to fall over her like a pale shadow .
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He said it was a pale shadow of Chris Patten's recommendations for reforming the force.
skin
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He was accompanied by a tall, dark-haired girl with pale skin and blue eyes whom he introduced as his fiancée.
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Nina had a round face, pale skin and short-cut hair.
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He was a stocky, forty-year-old Londoner with a pale skin and crew-cut red hair.
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Tall and slender, with pale skin and jet-black hair, she was less outgoing than her older sister.
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One was a junior doctor at a London hospital with pale skin and frizzy hair.
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The girls' long hair flowing over tight turtle-neck sweaters, eyes darkened against pale skin .
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She is a tall, elegant woman with fine cheekbones and smooth pale skin .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pale-faced/round-faced etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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pale blue eyes
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a pale complexion
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Her dress is pale pink, with a small flowery pattern.
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I couldn't get to sleep until I saw the first pale light of dawn.
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the pale light of early morning
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The banks of the river are bathed in pale moonlight.
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The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the dartboard to the bar and then back again.
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The sunlight through the thick clouds was pale and cool that morning.
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There were dark rings under her eyes and her skin was paler than usual.
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You look kind of pale . Are you feeling okay?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And her skin pale pale pale, like that one.
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Because of its name and that pale blue the school enjoyed a peculiar indefinable distinction.
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Great pale splotches appeared on the once-shining parquet floor where water had leaked in and stood in puddles.
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He knelt inside a globe of pale fire, his face lifted to the chains, his eyes closed.
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He was pale and natty as ever.
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His pale blue eyes were fixed on Sendei's own.
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The room, painted a white so fresh that it seemed pale blue, was cool and soothing.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
comparison
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Everything pales in comparison to a creation of this awesome magnitude.
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But that pales in comparison to what he brings to this city.
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The two disputes he mentioned pale in comparison with others looming on the horizon.
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They also prevail in an era where travel abuses pale in comparison to those of earlier years.
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Online shopping pales somewhat in comparison , which was the point of Larry Elliott's article.
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But the nine goals paled in comparison to the 16-plus average the stars have produced over the past seven games.
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Still, encouraging as such capital outlays are, they pale in comparison with Western investment in neighboring countries.
face
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The face that had paled with fright and shock had now flushed.
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While the other tour members chatted and compared equipment Mom stood to one side, her face pale under the fluorescent lights.
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Miss Clinton's face paled as she listened.
insignificance
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In general, how-ever, these problems pale to insignificance compared to the problem of radioactive waste disposal.
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His excruciating pains of confinement make mine pale into humbling insignificance .
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But all of this pales into insignificance compared with one major advantage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Clarence paled visibly. He hated the thought of pain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But that pales in comparison to what he brings to this city.
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I found a plumber, but when he saw the solid fuel monster in the kitchen, he paled visibly.
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It was still flowering in November, but the colour had paled to a soft lavender.
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It was without end or beginning, paling all emotional experiences into insignificance.
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Love seemed to pale in the whirlwind of conflicts I felt.
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The luminous star streaks were paling against a milky sky, whose brilliance in-creased moment by moment.
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The Mallaig train pulled away from the Clyde valley, leaving the haze-softened lights of Dumbarton paling in a cold February dawn.