"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

defeat sustantivo

sustantivo + defeat
Kolokacji: 25
election defeat • defeat of the army • home defeat • league defeat • landslide defeat • ...
defeat + verbo
Kolokacji: 27
defeat comes • defeat leaves • defeat leads • defeat means • defeat ends • ...
verbo + defeat
Kolokacji: 58
concede defeat • admit defeat • accept defeat • make in a defeat • lead to one's defeat • score in a defeat • play in the defeat • ...
adjetivo + defeat
Kolokacji: 123
humiliating defeat • major defeat • final defeat • bad defeat • military defeat • heavy defeat • electoral defeat • decisive defeat • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 31
(1) humiliating, humbling
Kolokacji: 2
1. humiliating defeat = upokarzająca klęska humiliating defeat
  • He did not place much blame for his humiliating defeat on himself.
  • If we handed them a humiliating defeat, they would have remembered.
  • Israeli newspapers framed the return of the site as a humiliating defeat for the nation.
  • But one humiliating defeat after another will take its toll.
  • They remembered the 23-2 deficit and the humiliating 111-79 defeat.
  • But is it worth the risk of a potentially humiliating defeat?
  • For the first time in the war, the Serbs suffered a humiliating defeat.
  • Instead, it became the scene of a humiliating and costly defeat for Russian forces.
  • The humiliating defeat brought to attention how much Levy's support had slipped.
  • In the latter battle they brought a humiliating defeat to the Afghan army.
2. humbling defeat = ucząc pokory porażkę humbling defeat
(5) military, naval, tactical
Kolokacji: 3
(9) only, single, lone
Kolokacji: 3
(15) Australian, American
Kolokacji: 2
(17) political, professional
Kolokacji: 2
(21) friendly, personal
Kolokacji: 2
(22) stinging, bloody
Kolokacji: 2
(26) Japanese, Iraqi
Kolokacji: 2
(27) quick, rapid, swift
Kolokacji: 3
(29) Italian, Roman
Kolokacji: 2
(30) Russian, Soviet, Royalist
Kolokacji: 3
(31) Greek, Athenian
Kolokacji: 2

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