"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
(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
1. possible defeat = możliwa porażka possible defeat
  • Faced with a possible defeat of the budget, Republican leaders said they had no choice but to drop the dairy provisions.
  • No one even thought of a possible defeat.
  • His heart-rending life lesson came days after he thought he had suffered the worst possible defeat.
  • Two nationally known California legislators face possible defeat.
  • What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey.
  • Headed by Wolters, the working group took a possible military defeat into their calculations.
  • Some Republicans predict that when faced with the possible defeat of such a high priority for the administration, the moderates will succumb to pressure.
  • They dared not weaken their efforts with any admissions of a possible defeat.
  • Not only that, but the ruling party may soon acknowledge a possible second defeat, in elections for the Michoacan state legislature.
  • By making the recess appointment, the White House avoided a possible defeat in the committee.
2. demoralizing defeat = zniechęcając porażkę demoralizing defeat
3. probable defeat = prawdopodobna porażka probable defeat
(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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