noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ enormous , great
▪ calm , quiet
▪
She spoke to him with quiet ~.
▪ human , personal
▪
the importance of human ~
VERB + DIGNITY
▪ have , possess
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These people have enormous ~.
▪ keep , maintain , preserve , protect , retain
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We all want to maintain our ~ in old age.
▪ give sb
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Being treated in the privacy of your own room gives you more ~.
▪ bring
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He brings a quiet ~ to the role.
▪ regain , restore
▪ respect
▪ lose
▪
The awful thing about old age is losing your ~.
▪ destroy , rob sb of , strip sb of
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Slavery destroys human ~.
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Keeping prisoners in such dreadful conditions strips them of all ~.
▪ muster
▪
With as much ~ as he could muster, he left the room.
PREPOSITION
▪ below sb's ~ ( esp. AmE ), beneath sb's ~
▪
He clearly regarded manual work as beneath his ~.
▪ with ~
▪
the right to die with ~
PHRASES
▪ an air of ~
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His aristocratic voice gives him an air of ~ and power.
▪ a lack of ~
▪ a loss of ~
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He hoped that he could change his mind without loss of ~.
▪ a sense of ~
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She had a strong sense of ~.
▪ with your ~ intact
▪
He needed a way to retreat with his ~ intact.