noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
heart and soul (= all your feelings )
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She loved Peter with all her heart and soul.
pour out your heart/soul (= tell someone all your feelings, including your most secret ones )
sensitive soul British English (= someone who is easily upset by small or unimportant things )
soul food
soul jazz
soul mate
soul music
soul patch
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brave
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Inspired by the Sixties, we asked a few brave souls to take the plunge and dress up like latter-day Twiggys.
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A few stalls stood uncovered and some brave souls made their way through the ankle-deep, mucky slush.
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A few brave souls danced while others enjoyed a good sing-song.
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I refused to sign it and one or two brave souls joined me.
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They said he was a brave soul , and an inspirational international leader.
human
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The random scattering of seeds, and how much worse, of human souls , appalled her.
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Yet the human soul can not tolerate injustice.
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Yet he wonders whether the human soul can dilate to comprehend a world which lacks localities and the native affections they inspire.
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Penn shows us the human soul inside a monstrous man.
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Such experiments had a bearing on the problem of the nature of the human soul .
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It tore past me, and I suddenly knew: the Wild Huntsman had commanded it to carry away a human soul .
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Part of the diet is meat, and to many the human body, soul , and smell constitute meat.
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But she can never entirely master a human soul - not unless you consent to it!
immortal
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Frankenstein was no Faust, exchanging his immortal soul for power.
living
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You mustn't tell a living soul what you just told me.
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Here they re-live the life of a pioneer in the wilderness, when the nearest living soul was 20 miles away.
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And that business about her obsession with him; she had never mentioned that to a living soul .
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No living soul appears in this desert of desolation, encompassed by appalling silence.
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Holly here's the only living soul I told.
lost
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The howling wind outside sounded like the wailing of lost souls .
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Those lost souls are so impoverished that they shave their heads in order that they may rub alcohol into them.
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And Sam Spiro - he had been like a lost soul since his wife died.
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There were some poor lost souls last week at the Ordnance Survey office in Chester.
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They were the voices of lost souls , all taking their lead from the one voice that had spoken Cardiff's name.
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Yet somehow she was very much part of the group and her loudness underlined yet another lost soul .
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Imagine her delight when a lost soul returns, through her good offices, to the fold.
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A few lost souls wander aimlessly down to the front and stare up at Bono's frantic, manic animation, briefly bemused.
poor
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He wants offers in excess of £1.4m. Poor souls .
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There seemed to be a cop for every fan, and only one poor soul tried to make it happen for himself.
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It was Tumbleweed. Poor soul !
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Voters, poor souls , are likely to be confused.
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It would not be so disconcerting if they were all eaten, the poor wee souls .
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I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good....
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King Robert himself hardly counted, poor soul .
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And then: poor Black. Poor soul .
sensitive
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Is your baby a cheeky chappie or a sensitive soul ?
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A sensitive soul walked into this town like a white missionary into a malarial swamp.
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Teachers, after all, are sensitive souls and easily upset - especially P.E. teachers.
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The sensitive souls found her more difficult to stomach.
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Morvael was a sensitive highly-strung soul , often troubled by terrible nightmares and dreams.
simple
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Under our sophistication we are simple souls .
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He introduced me to one simple , trusting soul .
■ NOUN
food
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There's plenty of great soul food in the Bay Area. 3.
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Musicians often finish their set and prowl the fairgrounds in search of new sounds and soul food .
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So, two nights a week, the Packers cater soul food from a restaurant in Milwaukee, 100 miles away.
mate
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To Chrissie he is a friend, to Terry a revelatory lover, and to Melanie a soul mate .
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They have founded a constitutional-covenant community for soul mates in Idaho.
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It wasn't the kind of reaction I'd expect from a man who had just killed his so-called soul mate .
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This man, much like his Southern soul mate at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, is a survivor.
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It will be easier to find a soul mate elsewhere than in one's own backyard.
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The film, Him, is a romantic comedy role about a woman's search for a soul mate .
music
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The girls at my school like soul music , and singers like Neneh Cherry and Janet Jackson.
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Fortunately, there's usually groovy soul music playing and eye-catching art adorning the walls.
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It's quite clear that the influence of soul music in pop has become poisonous, repressive, grey and total.
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Real soul music , translated into psychedelia.
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Finally the new adverts themselves were partly responsible for the revival of early 1960s soul music in the late 1980s.
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Procul Harum superimpose on the Bach harmonies a vocal whose style derives from soul music .
■ VERB
bare
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With their banshee wails, squalling guitars and naked aggression, they are baring their souls and they are angry.
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Marie had never understood how women could bare their souls with such ease, exposing themselves so shamelessly to one another.
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I don't have to stand here baring my soul in order to make you feel better and less of a victim!
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No parent is going to bare their soul to an uninterested, cool, busy professional.
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Some bare their souls on their feet and some bare their souls in the bars.
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The legislation gave the Government generally and the Home Office in particular an opportunity to bare its liberal soul .
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To bare one's soul to a member of my profession, Mr Barnett, is no small hurdle to surmount.
keep
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Hope is an every day essential that is needed in each of the characters to keep their minds and souls alive.
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Struggling peasants they'd be for the most part, trying to keep body and soul together in difficult times.
lose
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There certainly is something to be won and something to be lost-our very souls .
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He feels he has lost his soul and is thus unworthy of the worldly yet innocent Ada.
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In the pursuit of scientific credibility, Friends of the Earth temporarily lost its soul .
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From then on I knew that he lost his soul .
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The Greenham camp was a bit like the Foreign Legion for Polly, a place to nurse a lost soul .
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How long had I been wandering about Warsaw like a lost soul ?
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It lost its soul and it almost executed an innocent, abused woman.
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Also patron of lost souls and mariners.
pour
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I think he poured his heart and soul into dance.
pray
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I can hardly pray for her soul .
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A white preacher who prayed for their souls while Sethe peeled potatoes and Grandma Baby sucked air.
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She would be now, as she had been all that day, out praying for his soul .
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Christina believed she was released from the afterlife to pray for the souls in purgatory.
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You could spend your entire life praying for the holy souls , to get them out of purgatory.
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Since my college days, when I supported Jack Kennedy for president, my parents had been praying for my soul .
save
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Such a conditioning would save not only their souls but their necks.
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Moses, to save his soul , could not let this pass.
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No longer need he envy his long-dead friend, Martin Fenlon, for having saved the soul of an unrepentant sinner.
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How it proved people had to be saved financially before you could save their souls .
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Get a few ranters together and they give you broth if you let them save your soul .
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He was about to save the soul of a little boy.
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Go back a few hundred years and look around: there are politicians squabbling for power, priests saving souls , etc.
sell
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A whole week in Paris at Easter seemed to her something for which she would willingly have sold her soul .
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She was accused of being a Salem witch for selling her soul to the devil at the strawberry banks.
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Bertinotti accuses Cossutta of selling his political soul .
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The fact that we would literally sell our soul to Continental Airlines.
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Faustus wilfully ends himself; he sells his soul to the devil.
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If he were mine, I would rather sell my soul .
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Timothy was agonising over her, when Honor West would have sold her soul for a single kiss from him.
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He doesn't accuse us of selling our souls .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God rest his/her soul
God rest his/her soul
bare your soul
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I don't have to stand here baring my soul in order to make you feel better and less of a victim!
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Marie had never understood how women could bare their souls with such ease, exposing themselves so shamelessly to one another.
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No parent is going to bare their soul to an uninterested, cool, busy professional.
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Some bare their souls on their feet and some bare their souls in the bars.
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With their banshee wails, squalling guitars and naked aggression, they are baring their souls and they are angry.
bless my soul/I'll be blessed!
body and soul
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It makes your body and soul feel better.
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She devoted herself body and soul to the fight for women's rights.
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But now there is a new battle for the body and soul of Rolls-Royce.
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By extension, bodies and souls can exist independently since they are different sorts of entities.
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He'd have wished to own her, body and soul, to possess her.
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It lasted only one and a half hours but it satisfied body and soul.
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She'd finally realised that what she needed was to commit mind, body and soul into something challenging and exciting.
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The materials do include assertions about the constitution of humans and do make a distinction between body and soul.
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Thus far Plato and Aristotle attribute similar statements to the Orphics: body and soul are separable.
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Yet there was, in Orphism, a distinction between body and soul.
keep body and soul together
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Struggling peasants they'd be for the most part, trying to keep body and soul together in difficult times.
lost soul
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Also patron of lost souls and mariners.
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Also patron of infants and lost souls.
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And Sam Spiro - he had been like a lost soul since his wife died.
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How long had I been wandering about Warsaw like a lost soul?
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Ralph could hear himself telling this story to some lost soul in a diner.
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The howling wind outside sounded like the wailing of lost souls.
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There were some poor lost souls last week at the Ordnance Survey office in Chester.
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Those lost souls are so impoverished that they shave their heads in order that they may rub alcohol into them.
sell your soul (to the devil)
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A whole week in Paris at Easter seemed to her something for which she would willingly have sold her soul.
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Faustus wilfully ends himself; he sells his soul to the devil.
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He doesn't accuse us of selling our souls.
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If he were mine, I would rather sell my soul.
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Men who have sold their souls to the darkness.
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She was accused of being a Salem witch for selling her soul to the devil at the strawberry banks.
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The fact that we would literally sell our soul to Continental Airlines.
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Timothy was agonising over her, when Honor West would have sold her soul for a single kiss from him.
the life and soul of the party
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of local residents say the downtown area is losing its soul .
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He knew in his soul that Linda was never going to change.
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Mabel felt sure that her soul would be saved.
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Only a few brave souls ventured outdoors in Monday's storm.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A housewife soul must metamorphose into a full-blown housewife.
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Anticipated in December and enjoyed in January, February citrus can torture the souls of tree owners.
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Early pub gigs garnered a devoted following, but also a reputation for privileging musicianship over soul .
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How can one cultivate and cherish this rare fruit of the soul ?
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In an ironically tender twist, the boorish facade turns out to conceal the soul of an artist.
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In fact, there is not a soul on the streets.
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Second-hand soul , funky horns, wandering blues-style vocals, all derivative life is here.
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The older documents tell almost nothing about concern for the souls of these Negroes.