"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 • ...
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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 14
(1) successfully, unsuccessfully
Kolokacji: 2
(2) vigorously, strenuously
Kolokacji: 2
(3) strongly, weakly, robustly
Kolokacji: 3
(4) heavily, lightly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) initially, primarily
Kolokacji: 2
  • Boas was known for passionately defending what he believed to be right.
  • He has at times bluntly criticized them and passionately defended them.
  • In the presence of third parties, however, he would passionately defend those same decisions.
  • Spittle flew from her lips as she passionately defended herself.
  • Novak would passionately defend the ethnic revival; I was strongly against it.
  • Egypt's most prominent lawyers stood in line to passionately defend Khater.
  • For all their misery, the refugees passionately defend Hezbollah.
  • Mozart passionately defended his intention to pursue an independent career in Vienna.
  • Yet the competitors are supposed to passionately defend a position in which they may not believe.
  • I passionately defend Europe' s heritage of human rights and the rule of law.
2. ardently defend = zaciekle bronić ardently defend
3. zealously defend = zapamiętale bronić zealously defend
4. hotly defend = gorąco obroń hotly defend
(12) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2

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