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Từ điển LongMan Dictionary
well-nigh
 ˈwell-nigh adverb old-fashioned
almost:
▪ It will be well-nigh impossible to raise that amount of money.
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
well-nigh impossibleformal (= almost impossible )
▪ Policing the entire coastline is well-nigh impossible.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
 ADJECTIVE
impossible
▪ It comes easy to the habitual vagrant; it is well-nigh impossible to the inexperienced.
▪ But concentration on the story was well-nigh impossible.
▪ But that, as they suggest, is a well-nigh impossible task at this distance in time.
▪ To understand what other creatures perceive we have to do the well-nigh impossible.
▪ Habitually fractious, difficult, Andrew is now becoming well-nigh impossible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And both Rim-Suardal and Rim-Drynoch are well-nigh deserted - or so Ord says.
▪ But concentration on the story was well-nigh impossible.
▪ But that, as they suggest, is a well-nigh impossible task at this distance in time.
▪ Habitually fractious, difficult, Andrew is now becoming well-nigh impossible.
▪ Hair seems to be well-nigh everlasting, and so discovery of a tuft or two does not guarantee recent activity.
▪ It comes easy to the habitual vagrant; it is well-nigh impossible to the inexperienced.
▪ The fused, bony plates that protect their soft parts make them well-nigh invulnerable.
▪ To understand what other creatures perceive we have to do the well-nigh impossible.
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