"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
3. constantly defend = ciągle obroń constantly defend
4. regularly defend = regularnie obroń regularly defend
  • McIntyre regularly defended the title until 11 June, when Tyler Reks (the former Gabe Tuft) won the belt in his second attempt.
  • It would be a mistake to see Mercy Warren as some latter-day feminist; she regularly defended the "domestic sphere" as the proper place for women.
  • During the 1920s it regularly defended its community from attacks by the second incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan.
  • The 1930s saw the Kentucky Irish American regularly defend Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal policies.
  • It also might depend on whether he hires one of the small number of lawyers who regularly defend figures on the far right.
  • Mr. Lysaght, who regularly defends police officers accused of misconduct, said he feared that the publicity surrounding this case would trigger copycat complaints.
  • Throughout the years, the championship has been used on and off in WWC, although it was a mainstay of the promotion and defended regularly until the mid-1990s.
  • Really dire, and I regularly defend them!
  • Realizing he could make more money in the land of the rising sun, Thesz petitioned to the NWA promoters to regularly defend the belt in Japan.
  • District Officers in Masailand regularly defended the Masai against attempts to alienate their land, and in the process acquired a reputation for tender-heartedness.
(10) initially, primarily
Kolokacji: 2
(12) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2

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