"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
(12) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2
1. merely defend = jedynie obroń merely defend
  • Several times he even said Brazil was merely defending its own interests.
  • They have said they were merely defending themselves and did the least damage possible to the man.
  • Legal Services lawyers thus do not merely defend, for instance, individual installment debtors.
  • My man was merely defending himself from their unprovoked attack.
  • If faculty merely defended their own turf, they could have a significant impact.
  • He suspects that many of those who invoke the Enlightenment are merely defending a conservative order.
  • He was merely defending "the basic American principle of separation of church and state."
  • Strawberry said, he had been grabbed from behind and was merely defending himself.
  • You didn't instigate the attack, you merely defended yourself and us.
  • But Maniakes remained convinced he could not win by merely defending.
2. simply defend = po prostu obroń simply defend

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