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Common collocations with wrong in American Collocation

wrong adjective

US /rɔŋ/

completely

absolutely
all
completely
entirely
fundamentally
plain
quite
totally
utterly

I believe that analysis is completely wrong.

extremely

badly
disastrously
horribly
seriously
spectacularly
terribly

This is where things started to go horribly wrong.

when it is obvious

clearly
obviously
plainly

The overturned decision was clearly wrong in the light of the evidence available at the time it was made.

when there is no doubt

just
simply

But this contention is simply wrong.

be or seem wrong

be
feel
look
seem
sound

That seems wrong to me.

go wrong

go

We cannot afford for anything to go wrong.

be wrong about something

get something
guess

Make a note of the answers that you got wrong.

show that someone is wrong

prove someone

I hope I’m proved wrong, but I don’t think I will be.

think something is wrong

consider something
find something
think something

This a kind of behaviour which many Christians would consider wrong.

argue
assume
claim
conclude
say
suggest
think

It would be wrong to assume, however, that this hostility was shared by everyone.