"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
  • Soviet forces found a weakly defended part of the front and broke through.
  • The idea here is to get the enemy to focus his forces in a location, and then attack elsewhere which would be weakly defended.
  • Come in, destroy a weakly defended planet someplace, then get out fast.
  • Hell and heaven, as I saw it, were making common cause against weakly defended peoples everywhere.
  • What is now Estonia and Livonia, weakly defended, fell quickly.
  • "Well, interplanetary weather is a tricky thing," Zeke weakly defended.
  • The American representative weakly defended the practice's legality, but dodged explaining its rationale, saying the rules come from the states, not the federal government.
  • Alaska at the time was weakly defended.
  • Will you help your grandfather understand that Castle Ranit is too weakly defended?
  • Instead, he defended weakly and stumbled into an endgame where he was a vital pawn down.
3. robustly defend = solidnie bronić robustly defend
(4) heavily, lightly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) initially, primarily
Kolokacji: 2
(12) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2

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