adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bitterly/deeply/terribly disappointed
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The girl’s parents were bitterly disappointed at the jury’s verdict.
dead/incredibly/terribly etc boring (= very boring )
desperately/terribly/dreadfully unhappy
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It was the first time she had been away from home and she was desperately unhappy.
go horribly/terribly wrong
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From that moment on, everything went horribly wrong for the team.
terribly/deeply embarrassed (= very embarrassed )
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I was deeply embarrassed to see my mother arrive in a very short skirt.
terribly/dreadfully/horribly wrong
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Harry felt sure that something was terribly wrong.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
afraid
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Emilia had been long sick with pregnancy; she had lost the child; and somewhere she was terribly afraid .
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And though she longed to lose herself in the flames, to be consumed and reborn, she was also terribly afraid .
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Instead, hesitantly, terribly afraid she was doing the wrong thing, she plucked meanings from the firmament.
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Folly felt a fresh wave of desire sweep through her, and was terribly afraid that he would see it too.
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He was most terribly afraid of the ferret, but he loved it with all his heart.
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He was terribly afraid that at present Lorton was loyal solely to his own interests.
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Whether or not we have firmly held beliefs about what happens after death, we can still be terribly afraid .
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I was terribly afraid that there was some reason for them other than that they were due to something she had eaten.
difficult
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The money side of a clergy family is terribly difficult .
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That was the trouble with being like she was: it was terribly difficult sometimes to really know.
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Artists are terribly difficult people for us ordinary mortals to deal with.
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Making such a plan is, of course, often terribly difficult .
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It's terribly difficult to make a call to those sort of islands as they don't have many telephones.
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None of them seem to be finding it so terribly difficult to just sit on their brooms.
good
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It was a fascinating experience but from the climbing point of view the ratios weren't terribly good .
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It looked terribly good after all they had been through.
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That's terribly good of you.
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Julian and I are not terribly good at snooker.
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She's terribly good at it, isn't she?
hard
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It must hit you and John terribly hard , being friends of his and so young and all.
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The second year you realise that it' s terribly , terribly hard .
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It became terribly hard in the winter.
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He wanted to do Natural Sciences at Cambridge, worked terribly hard and got in.
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It was terribly hard work, even with the boys helping.
important
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Some terribly important person from the Sûreté - is that right?
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You fight for things that are terribly important .
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It is terribly important that this country takes vocational training seriously.
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It's terribly important they do it properly.
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Work hadn't seemed so terribly important until now.
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Being ambitious to earn a lot of money may seem terribly important while you're doing it.
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That is terribly important because under the council tax 85 percent. of local expenditure will be met centrally.
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A.S. I think it's terribly important for people to train.
sad
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Call me old fashioned, but I find this terribly sad .
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I found this reaction terribly sad and utterly hilarious, so I consulted the most insightful cosmologist I know.
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I think his life was terribly sad .
sorry
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She said she was terribly sorry to disturb him.
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Rather than write: We are terribly sorry that our representative was abrupt on the telephone last Tuesday.
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He made me feel terribly sorry I had ever asked, but also terribly glad I'd been wrong.
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We are all terribly sorry and worried about this, as we don't know what has happened.
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Silvio's receptionist was always terribly sorry , but il signore was busy.
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I am terribly sorry this should have happened and I sincerely hope that we hear from them.
wrong
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They were in the prime of their lives and something went terribly wrong .
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It was my first inkling that something had gone terribly wrong .
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It just went terribly , terribly wrong .
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The test having been oversold in the first place, the woman is sure that there is something terribly wrong .
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Sadly, things went terribly wrong .
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The gamble had worked, when a dozen different things could have gone so terribly wrong .
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I can tell from your tone something else is terribly wrong .
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That had been their mistake, that was what made Chrissy absolutely certain that something terribly wrong was going on.
■ VERB
disappoint
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He was terribly disappointed she hadn't flown at him or reacted more strongly.
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This is neither shocking nor terribly disappointing .
feel
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He then falls asleep immediately, leaving me feeling terribly frustrated.
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But I feel terribly tired and completely lacking in self-confidence.
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I feel terribly uncomfortable and. guilty.
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I have not felt terribly well; but no matter.
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For a second I feel terribly lost.
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Ladies collecting jumble for the local church fête always make you feel terribly guilty.
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I felt terribly tired and at the same time had the sense that time had never begun and space had never ended.
go
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They were in the prime of their lives and something went terribly wrong.
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It was my first inkling that something had gone terribly wrong.
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It just went terribly , terribly wrong.
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Sadly, things went terribly wrong.
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But the whole area's gone terribly downhill.
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And a sense of history gone terribly wrong.
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But the experiment had gone terribly wrong.
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But, of course, matters went terribly wrong.
hurt
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If you don't want to take, he's terribly hurt .
look
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Looking at the film now, it looks terribly dated.
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The proposed satellite interconnection system that I was fighting so hard to stop suddenly looked terribly appealing.
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Nancy, still looking terribly upset, left the station, and hurried back to Fagin's house with this news.
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It looked terribly good after all they had been through.
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From here she looks terribly unlikely.
seem
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All at once he seemed terribly far away.
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Stripped of his power to inflict harm on me, he seemed terribly ordinary.
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Being ambitious to earn a lot of money may seem terribly important while you're doing it.
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Deane didn't seem terribly comfortable to me.
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Nobody seemed terribly interested in doing anything just at that moment.
sound
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Now we knew it was artillery, it sounded terribly close.
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Trees got taken away to become all sorts of products, each of which sounded terribly exciting to the fir tree.
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She never met Chris, but she thought he sounded terribly romantic.
suffer
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Piazza Duomo suffered terribly , although the cathedral itself remained largely intact.
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But in the meantime, people suffered terribly .
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Of course, Cinzia suffered terribly too.
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I wanted to suffer terribly and rejoice terribly before I began my climb up the sky.
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Chaucer's Criseyde is a dignified and thoughtful widow, who suffers terribly when she leaves Troy.
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Instead he and his men suffered terribly from scorching, thirst, and scurvy, from which one of his officers died.
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Den suffered terribly from stage fright and had some real moments of crisis which of course never showed from the front.
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But the opportunists suffer terribly under these conditions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I'm terribly sorry if I mispronounced your name.
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The team played terribly .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Artists are terribly difficult people for us ordinary mortals to deal with.
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He is not a terribly contented man.
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It is terribly important that this country takes vocational training seriously.
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It looked terribly good after all they had been through.
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It was all so terribly clear.
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Was he somehow playing a terribly cruel trick on her?