"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

defeat verbo

defeat + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 211
defeat enemies • defeat one's opponent • defeat several candidates • defeat the champion • defeat one's rivals • defeat the purpose • ...
verbo + defeat
Kolokacji: 24
defeat before losing • help defeat • team to defeat • try to defeat • manage to defeat • go to defeat • ...
defeat + preposición
Kolokacji: 31
defeat by • defeat in • defeat after • defeat at • defeat for • ...
(1) by, in, after, at, for, ...
Kolokacji: 10
1. defeat via = porażka przez defeat via
2. defeat including = zwyciężać w tym defeat including
3. defeat within = porażka wewnątrz defeat within
4. defeat of = zwyciężać z defeat of
6. defeat off = porażka daleko defeat off
  • He proceeded to defeat the Greek garrison on the small island of Sphacteria off the coast of Messenia.
  • In 1745 the navy twice defeated the French off Finisterre but their convoys escaped.
  • He drowned in the Irish Sea, having been shipwrecked after defeating the French off the Cornish coast.
  • In 809, the strategos Paul defeated a Venetian fleet off Dalmatia.
  • Arcidi defeated the much bigger Clark (5'8", 375 lbs) by pressing 725 pounds off his chest to establish yet a new, but controversial, world record.
  • On 22 February, the Bourbon navies defeated the British off the coast of Toulon.
  • He defeated the Carthaginian fleet off the Liparaean islands, though not without considerable loss.
  • Kovan defeated the 1995 champion, John Riley, by 14.02 seconds while clipping 1.69 seconds off the course record, set in 1982.
  • Joining French forces in the ongoing war with Spain, he defeated a Spanish fleet off Barcelona in 1655.
  • With this fleet he defeated the enemy's fleet off Ilium and then off Lemnos.
7. defeat along = porażka wzdłuż defeat along
8. defeated amid = zwyciężony wśród defeated amid
9. defeat outside = porażka zewnątrz defeat outside
10. defeat until = zwyciężać do czasu gdy defeat until
11. defeated along with = zwyciężony wraz z defeated along with
defeat + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 49
narrowly defeated • easily defeat • soundly defeated • eventually defeated • decisively defeated • finally defeated • later defeated • ...

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