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- explanatory 85
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- drag out 44
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- change 438
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- Onwards 73
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- badly off 155
- command performance 56
- dark-glasses 68
- Suffer 203
- colleague 417
- exit strategy 92
- advice column 99
- approximation 98
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- retribution 243
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earthquake
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earth·quake /ˈɜːθkweɪk $ ˈɜːrθ-/ ●●○ noun [countableC]
HEGa sudden shaking of the Earth’s surface that often causes a lot of damage 地震 → seismic
n COLLOCATIONS
adjectives
big/large
This is the biggest earthquake ever recorded in this area.
small
The town experiences dozens of small earthquakes every year.
powerful (=with a lot of force)
Flights were cancelled after a powerful earthquake shook the northwest of the country.
a major earthquake (=very big)
If a major earthquake hits a large city, millions could die.
a minor earthquake (=a small one)
Minor earthquakes are relatively common.
a great/massive earthquake (=extremely big)
1906 is remembered for the great earthquake that destroyed San Francisco.
a severe/devastating earthquake (=causing a lot of damage)
verbsThe whole town was flattened by a devastating earthquake.
an earthquake happens (also an earthquake occurs formal)
Scientists cannot predict when an earthquake will occur.
an earthquake hits/strikes a place (=happens in a particular place)
The region was struck by a major earthquake last year.
an earthquake destroys/damages something
The earthquake completely destroyed all the buildings on the island.
an earthquake measures 5/6.4 etc on the Richter Scale
phrasesThe earthquake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale, left more than 20,000 homeless.
the magnitude of an earthquake (=how powerful it is)
Measuring stations identify the location and magnitude of an earthquake within a few minutes of the event.
n THESAURUS
earthquake a sudden shaking of the Earth’s surface
The earthquake destroyed homes, telephone lines and roads.
quake informal an earthquake – used especially in journalism
More than 2000 people died when a quake hit the island of Flores.
tremor a small movement in the Earth’s surface in which the ground shakes slightly
He was awoken by a series of tremors during the night.
aftershock further movements in the Earth’s surface that happen after a larger earthquake
In the days after the earthquake, the area suffered a series of aftershocks.
Examples from the Corpus
earthquake• The 1989 earthquake rendered them dangerous, and the structure came down in 1991.• Kobe was devastated by the 1995 earthquake.• This catastrophe - probably caused by an earthquake and explosion of gases - may be the reason.• A car crash, an earthquake, a burning factory are much better.• I mean, it was more than an earthquake.• They had survived what was, at least, a Pretty Big Onethe largest earthquake to strike northern California in eighty-three years.• There was a terrifying rumbling noise and the stairs shook as though a minor earthquake had passed beneath the house.• The earthquake of October 1989 reminded San Franciscans of the awesome power of the thing.
earth·quake noun →n COLLOCATIONS1 →n THESAURUS1
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