noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be in the first flush of passion/youth etc
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He was no longer in the first flush of youth.
consuming interest/passion (= a strong feeling of interest, or something you are extremely interested in )
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During this period, politics became his consuming interest.
passion fruit
passion play
ruling passion
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Football remains the ruling passion of many men.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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Biscoe is a saxophone virtuoso of great lyricism, passion , stamina, and considerable versatility.
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His great passion is for the life of the mind.
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But birds were my great passion .
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Great determination only occurs when there is great passion .
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The Amazon basin breeds great passions such as Roberto's.
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And yet great passions , or the tendency to them, seemed to run in the family.
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They had a great passion for women, a great passion for each other, a great passion for music and trains.
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Yet these tales of great passion also attract me.
real
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Flitting from one flower to the next, whichever looked the most tempting, but totally incapable of feeling any real passion .
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Eliza heard real passion in his voice.
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These are consummate performances of neo-bop, and Ambrosetti plays with real imagination and passion .
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His real passion was for order and control.
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But beers are his real passion and around two years ago he began filling his shelves with an ever-increasing selection.
strong
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The missing don certainly seemed to inspire strong passions , Loretta reflected.
■ NOUN
fruit
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Add the passion fruit , gelatine and Armagnac or brandy.
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Specifically, it is citrus vodka, orange passion fruit liqueur, and a hint of sweet and sour.
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Serve either in the little dishes garnished with whipped cream and passion fruit or turn them out into plates.
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Dance off that burnt passion fruit tart with fresh mango and prickly pear to get a head start on 2001 resolutions.
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Never has a passion fruit tasted sweeter.
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Zimmermann Graeff's Exotic Buck's Fizz is made with delicious tropical fruit juices including pineapple and passion fruit.
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The most popular include apricot, blackcurrant, cinnamon, lemon and orange, passion fruit , peach and spice.
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Serve the purée in a pool around 2 scoops of ready-made sorbet such as passion fruit .
■ VERB
arouse
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It arouses all forms of passion .
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Neither slinky dresses nor thigh-throttling jeans and undulating cleavage seem to arouse the slightest passion into those zombies on the terraces.
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The case aroused passions in Norfolk and across Britain.
consume
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You can hardly claim she was consumed by passion .
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Her heart clenched inside her as she thought of Guido and the dizzy, consuming passions he aroused in her.
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And it's more fun now than when we were consumed by white-hot passion .
develop
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And Green had developed a passion for a university law student he met at work in Salford, Greater Manchester.
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Jessica Dubroff developed a passion for airplanes and horses in her short life.
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Coleridge developed a passion for Sarah Hutchinson, her old schoolfriend.
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But as an adolescent he developed a passion for the theatre, first in the form of puppets, then ballet.
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She represented her house, Nightingale, at swimming and netball and developed her lifelong passion for dance.
fly
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Now he satisfies that passion for exploration through flying and boating.
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She still worries about losing everything, but knows she has found a lifelong passion in flying .
indulge
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Here he was able to indulge a growing passion for literature, but not poetry, he recollects.
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Jermyn reminisces about a certain woman with whom he once indulged his passion and vanity.
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But instances like the Primitives get rarer and already one feels ashamed for indulging such backward passions .
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Turn to the Net to indulge your passion .
share
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They shared Chamberlain's passion for efficiency but, unlike him, were in principle opposed to private ownership of the economy.
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E-mail also is an important way that the Net connects strangers who share personal passions .
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Cranmer shared the Tudor passion for religious uniformity, but was mild in persecution.
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He is married, with three children, and the Bettmans share a passion for skiing.
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I never shared my family's passion for horses.
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Martin, like himself an introspective, thoughtful young man who shared a passion for debating and an intolerance toward religion.
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Oh, and they share a passion for football, too.
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Despite their differing backgrounds, the three share a passion for books and ideas.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flame of anger/desire/passion etc
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She felt a flame of anger flicker and grow.
crime of passion
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And was it really the crime of passion that Wilde eloquently records?
the Passion
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sermon full of passion and inspiration
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Acting is Turturro's passion .
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All the passion in their marriage has died.
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Despite his passion for Carolyn, Mark never seriously considered leaving his wife for her.
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He loved her still, with just the same passion as he always had.
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He throws himself into his art with a creative passion .
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She hated her ex-husband with a passion .
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There is a common prejudice in this country that Italians display their passions more readily than the English.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All of this may help to explain why I support with passion the reforms proposed by David Blunkett earlier this week.
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I remember my teacher dutifully emphasizing that the two were, indeed, married before they consummated their passion .
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In 1987, the consensus is that everything must be stamped with soul and franked with passion .
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Man himself has a passion for power that brings on a strange and noxious malady.
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Stewart was a versatile artist; painting was his lifelong passion and his pictures can serve as a guide to his career.
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Who will protect minorities against the passions and tyranny of the popular majority?
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Wives in the land of the Rising Sun enjoy half as many nights of passion as their Western sisters.