"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
  • You know if we'd defended properly first half we would have won the game today.
  • There is a lot more to defending properly than meets the eye.
  • The army was also short machine guns and needed more artillery to properly defend the city.
  • Properly defended, it can withstand any assault for at least several days.
  • One or two of my defenders didn't defend properly tonight.
  • A balance must be struck between finding a cutting edge and defending properly.
  • Furthermore, the court continued, the defendants "could not properly defend themselves without using privileged evidence."
  • In the open sea, firing publicly on Chinese aircraft quite properly defending their own base.
  • This place cannot be properly defended," said Arthur distractedly, "and we may march out with the army at any time!
  • But he also said he was determined to make sure that the city would be properly defended in the lawsuits.
5. angrily defend = gniewnie obroń angrily defend
(10) initially, primarily
Kolokacji: 2
(12) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2

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