"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 • ...

defeat + adjetivo/adverbio

Kolokacji: 49

narrowly defeated • easily defeat • soundly defeated • eventually defeated • decisively defeated • finally defeated • later defeated • ...

Kolokacji: 16

Grup znaczeniowych: 7

(1) narrowly, utterly, comprehensively

Kolokacji: 3

Kolokacji: 10

(3) eventually, finally, initially

Kolokacji: 3

Kolokacji: 3

1. decisively defeated = zdecydowanie pokonany decisively defeated

So far the only thing I've been able to defeat decisively is my equipment.
The more powerful lower house, where the government is in the majority, decisively defeated a similar motion last week.
The Spartans were decisively defeated and their king was killed.
In this battle, the latter force was decisively defeated by the British forces.
Finally in 1981, he came back to decisively defeat Cade.
It was decisively defeated, bringing the civil wars to an end.
Neither side seems able to decisively defeat the other.
The Imperial army was decisively defeated and forced to retreat.
On 3 September it was decisively defeated, bringing the civil wars to an end.
A referendum on December 5, 2006, however, decisively defeated the proposal.

2. conclusively defeated = ostatecznie pokonany conclusively defeated

3. definitively defeated = nieodwołalnie pokonany definitively defeated

Kolokacji: 23

Kolokacji: 5

(7) unexpectedly, duly

Kolokacji: 2

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