"defend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

defend verbo

defend + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 149
defend champion • defend one's title • defend one's decision • defend one's actions • defend one's position • defend one's interests • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 29
(2) title, championship, king
Kolokacji: 3
(9) honor, crown, medal
Kolokacji: 3
(11) thesis, dissertation
Kolokacji: 2
(12) approach, entrance
Kolokacji: 2
(16) view, coast
Kolokacji: 2
(17) reputation, name
Kolokacji: 2
(19) democracy, segregation
Kolokacji: 2
(20) ability, morality
Kolokacji: 2
(21) woman, husband, wife
Kolokacji: 3
(22) proposal, speech, comment
Kolokacji: 3
(23) chance, turf
Kolokacji: 2
(24) currency, others
Kolokacji: 2
(26) piracy, criminal, murderer
Kolokacji: 3
(27) father, mother, son
Kolokacji: 3
(28) titlist
Kolokacji: 1
(29) Stalin, capitalism, journalist
Kolokacji: 3
1. defend capitalism = obroń kapitalizm defend capitalism
2. defend Stalin = obroń Stalin defend Stalin
  • Other Communists openly defend Stalin as a great leader.
  • The last ambassador was famous for fawning over Stalin, defending Stalin's bloody purges.
  • Mrs. Andreyeva prefers not to be described as a Stalinist, the dictator's name being redolent with unpleasant connotations, but she defends Stalin as a man misjudged.
  • For a party that had defended Stalin, this wasn't such a bitter pill.
  • The answer, surely, is not that anyone still wishes to defend Stalin, Mao or Kim Il Sung, but that nobody knows what more to say.
  • Soon, his conviction stout and heated as the stove, he was defending Stalin, arguing that yes, there were victims under Stalin, but so was there faith.
  • In it, Buck was quoted as saying "for a time I gave the appearance of defending Stalin.
  • The fight began with publication in the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya of a full-page article defending Stalin and questioning the liberalization of Soviet society.
  • It defended Stalin and branded European Communism a "deviation."
  • I blush to remember my attempts to defend Mao and Stalin as he extolled the virtues of Trotsky.
3. defend journalists = obroń dziennikarzy defend journalists
verbo + defend
Kolokacji: 39
help defend • die defending • prepared to defend • attempt to defend • try to defend • forced to defend • continue to defend • ...
defend + preposición
Kolokacji: 27
defend against • defend by • defend before • defend on • defend with • ...
defend + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 62
successfully defend • vigorously defend • strongly defend • heavily defended • defend well • ...

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