"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
(5) military, naval, tactical
Kolokacji: 3
(9) only, single, lone
Kolokacji: 3
(15) Australian, American
Kolokacji: 2
1. Australian Open defeat = Porażka Australian Open Australian Open defeat
2. American defeat = Amerykańska porażka American defeat
  • However, other scholars hold that the war constituted a British victory and an American defeat.
  • This 1942 clash off Guadalcanal was a dolorous American defeat.
  • In the heaviest single American defeat of the war, 5,400 Americans are captured along with ships, munitions, and food supplies.
  • All his predictions about American defeat have proved false.
  • The humbling American defeat in Vietnam suggests two conflicting courses of action.
  • "They may not be rooting for an American defeat, but most are certainly antiwar and anti-Bush."
  • But anyone who thinks an American defeat in Iraq will bring a merciful end to this conflict is deluded.
  • He made delay equal to an American defeat.
  • The actual site of this little known American defeat is unknown.
  • The fact of American defeat is obvious, and its implications will be unfolding for decades.
(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
preposición + defeat
Kolokacji: 22
of defeat • from defeat • after one's defeat • to one's defeat • following one's defeat • ...

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