"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
  • The frontier is by treaty lightly defended, as you know, and pretty open.
  • Given its small size, the town was lightly defended.
  • Alusair considered the report for a moment, then said, "There's a reason the city is only lightly defended."
  • Because training fields and aircraft were lightly defended, they made for easier targets.
  • The guerrillas have attacked some lightly defended police posts with up to 200 men.
  • Even this lightly defended world had demanded the best of the podia.
  • 'We are going into a lightly defended Chinese naval base,' he said.
  • They took over the lightly defended island of Jamaica.
  • The town, which been evacuated prior to the beginning of the war, was only lightly defended by allied troops.
  • However, their military is weak and their bases are lightly defended.
(10) initially, primarily
Kolokacji: 2
(12) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2

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