noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fractured skull/jaw/rib etc
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She suffered a fractured skull in the accident.
penetrate...skull
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What could I say that would penetrate his thick skull ?
skull and crossbones
skull cap
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fractured
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Mr Healy died later in a Dublin hospital from bleed of the brain and a fractured skull .
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Pathologist Mustansir Nurbhai said Mr Thompson died of extensive cerebral haemorrhage due to a fractured skull .
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I suspect she has a fractured skull and her cheekbone is also broken.
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He is thought to have a fractured skull and is drifting in and out of consciousness.
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He had emergency surgery on his fractured skull but died 12 hours later from brain injuries.
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He suffered brain damage caused by a fractured skull and died later in Middlesbrough General hospital.
human
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There are few exceptions where human skulls have been found in wells and which could suggest violence at a later period.
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Moses has seen visions that no human skull could hold; hence, his budding, fragile horns.
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A threadbare rug covered the stone of the floor, and a human skull grinned to itself in the corner.
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There was also a stuffed fox and a human skull .
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The device is so sensitive it can pin point a human skull buried three metres underground.
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Above the altar, however, in place of the religious painting in Dubois's house, was a chillingly small human skull .
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Those rows of human skulls may well be evidence of that brutalising process.
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One whole shelf was devoted to the human skull .
thick
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Damn his thick skull: she should have splashed his brains across the wall.
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Let him do six months or a year, to get it through his thick skull that he done wrong.
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Orcs have large heads with huge jaws but tiny foreheads behind which lurk a thick skull and not very much brain.
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Neither you nor they seem to be able to get this obvious point through your thick skulls .
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In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull , and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests.
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Maybe that had even penetrated his thick skull .
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She couldn't get it into her thick skull that being gay just happens.
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You'd better get that through your thick skull !
■ NOUN
cap
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His close-cropped hair was hidden under a black velvet skull cap .
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It is a Walkman-sized device wired to a skull cap that monitors brain waves.
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The boys had to be coaxed into blazers and skull caps .
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The pale woman, bosom exposed, is entwined with a dark man wearing a sullen expression and a skull cap .
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I recognized the neat plastic skull cap .
fracture
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Depressed skull fracture , uneven pupils, ragged reflexes - and more fractures than I care to think about.
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Peter Vanezis, a pathologist, told the hearing that the fatal injury was brain haemorrhaging caused by a 15-centimetre skull fracture .
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He also agreed he'd never seen a skull fracture caused by a blow to the nose.
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The pale, badly bruised face and thin trickle of blood from one ear, suggested a skull fracture too.
■ VERB
break
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This enabled her to calculate the force that its jaws would need to break the skull of a living animal.
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Both legs were broken , my skull was fractured, the radio was demolished.
crack
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You could crack your skull on that intractable stone, or it could scoop out spoonfuls of flesh.
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Donlan suffered a cracked skull and his nasal septum was pushed out of place.
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He has also cracked his skull and still carries the scar.
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If he had smiled a moment sooner Hicks would have cracked his skull .
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John Charlton fell heavily, cracking his skull on a kerbstone.
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I cracked his skull with a club, and they say it shook his brain loose.
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Unfortunately, leaping from my seat in the dugout, I cracked my skull on its roof and the world turned black.
crush
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Mowbray's body crashed against the earth, his brains spattering as the sharp, icy cobbles crushed his skull .
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He not only kills her, he crushes her skull and splits her body like a shellfish.
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It's so tight it would crush his skull .
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The superman testing himself with an ax, crushing the skulls of old women.
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He had to summon all his willpower to pass under a bridge because he would experience a crushing pressure on the skull .
smash
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A few feet away, a baseball bat crushed a schoolteacher's head, smashed his skull into a pulpy mess.
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They smashed its skull ... and then laid it back where they found it.
suffer
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He broke both legs, his jaw, nose, hip and wrist and suffered a fractured skull .
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Donlan suffered a cracked skull and his nasal septum was pushed out of place.
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He suffered a fractured skull , fractured jaw and cuts to his head and body.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Firstly, it is reflected and given direction by the cut-away skull bone, acting as a parabolic reflector.
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He cuts up bleached gourds to be the skulls.
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He said post mortems showed Mrs Garvey had died from head injuries, including multiple fractures to the skull .
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His bony skull and his sharp beak jutted out of the robe at such a low angle he looked like a buzzard.
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The skull smashed, apparently by a heavy mallet which Lorrimer had been examining.
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The superman testing himself with an ax, crushing the skulls of old women.
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They are classified according to the number of openings in the skull .