Collocations for barely - adv.
Barely is used with these adjectives:
able, adequate, alive, audible, awake, aware, capable, clothed, coherent, comprehensible, conceivable, conscious, credible, discernible, distinguishable, dry, feasible, furnished, habitable, imaginable, intelligible, legible, light, literate, noticeable, perceptible, profitable, recognizable, repressed, submerged, sufficient, tolerable, visible, worth
able, adequate, alive, audible, awake, aware, capable, clothed, coherent, comprehensible, conceivable, conscious, credible, discernible, distinguishable, dry, feasible, furnished, habitable, imaginable, intelligible, legible, light, literate, noticeable, perceptible, profitable, recognizable, repressed, submerged, sufficient, tolerable, visible, worth
Barely is used with these verbs:
acknowledge, affect, afford, avoid, breathe, brush, budge, cling, comprehend, conceal, cover, dare, dent, discern, eat, escape, exceed, feed, finish, fit, flinch, function, glance, hear, hesitate, hide, illuminate, imagine, know, light, listen, manage, mask, mention, merit, miss, notice, pause, penetrate, qualify, reach, recognize, refrain, register, remember, repress, resemble, restrain, see, skim, sleep, slow, spare, stir, summon, suppress, survive, sustain, tolerate, touch, understand, whisper
acknowledge, affect, afford, avoid, breathe, brush, budge, cling, comprehend, conceal, cover, dare, dent, discern, eat, escape, exceed, feed, finish, fit, flinch, function, glance, hear, hesitate, hide, illuminate, imagine, know, light, listen, manage, mask, mention, merit, miss, notice, pause, penetrate, qualify, reach, recognize, refrain, register, remember, repress, resemble, restrain, see, skim, sleep, slow, spare, stir, summon, suppress, survive, sustain, tolerate, touch, understand, whisper