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Collocations for cold - noun

1. lack of heat; low temperature

ADJECTIVE

biting, bitter, extreme, freezing
winter

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VERB + cold

feel
I don't feel the cold as badly as many people.
keep out
The house has extra insulation to keep out the cold.
be blue with, be numb with
My hands were blue with cold.

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PREPOSITION

against the cold
We were well wrapped up against the cold.
out in the cold (often figurative)
He stood out in the cold and waited.
Millions of ordinary workers feel left out in the cold by the shift to digital technology.

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2. common illness

ADJECTIVE

bad, heavy (BrE), nasty
She won her match despite suffering from a heavy cold.
mild, slight
common
When will they find a cure for the common cold?
chest, head

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VERB + cold

have, nurse, suffer from
Jim stayed at home because he was nursing a cold.
catch, go down with (BrE)
I must have caught a cold on the bus.
If you stay out in the rain you'll catch cold!

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Collocations for cold - adj.

1. not hot or warm

VERBS

be, feel, look, seem
become, get, go, grow, turn
As evening fell it got very cold.
The room grew cold.
In January it turned very cold.
remain, stay
make sb/sth
The rain overnight had made the water cold.
keep sth
Use ice to keep the drinks cold.

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ADVERB

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
bitterly, freezing, terribly
It's bitterly cold outside.
There was a freezing cold wind.

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2. not cooked/having become cold after cooking

VERBS

be
get, go
Your dinner's getting cold.
The water has gone cold. (BrE)
The sight of him standing there made her blood go cold. (figurative)
eat sth, serve sth
Bake in the oven for twenty minutes. Serve hot or cold.

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ADVERB

stone
This soup is stone cold!

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Cold is used with these nouns:
air, ash, basement, bath, beer, blood, breeze, buffet, calculation, cash, cement, chicken, chill, climate, coffee, comfort, contempt, country, current, cut, day, dirt, dish, draught, drink, earth, environment, evening, eye, fact, finger, flannel, floor, food, fury, gaze, gleam, gloom, ground, gust, ham, heart, indifference, light, logic, look, lunch, manner, marble, mask, meat, metal, milk, mist, month, morning, night, ocean, plunge, rain, reality, reception, remedy, room, salad, sea, sensation, shiver, shower, snack, sore, soup, spell, starter, storage, store, supper, sweat, tap, tea, temperature, tone, voice, war, washcloth, water, weather, wind, winter

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