"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
2. vehemently defend = gwałtownie obroń vehemently defend
3. ferociously defend = gwałtownie bronić ferociously defend
  • Mmrr's problems were multiplied by the fact that the goldfish were ferociously defending their domain by bumping her paws and tummy with their noses.
  • He had strong political views that he would ferociously defend.
  • Duncan Idaho could not understand why the Emperor's elite corps would so ferociously defend the Tleilaxu.
  • Though the bill still has to clear the State Senate, the move touched off a fruit feud with Georgia peach producers, who ferociously defended their claim to the world's sweetest peaches.
  • In most situations, the serval will ferociously defend its food against attempted theft by others.
  • In Africa south of the Sahara, where one tribe often finds itself divided by two flags, jittery nation-states ferociously defend the arbitrary frontiers drawn up by departed colonial powers.
  • They ferociously defended them and repaired bomb damage faster than the Race's alleged experts had thought possible.
  • Cardassia is now divided among countless tribes, each one ferociously defending the borders of its pathetic realm.
  • Other than permitting some much-needed upgrades since the purchase - repaired toilets, new coats of paint - Mad River's shareholders ferociously defend tradition here.
  • Mr. Itzkoff was able to keep cognitive dissonance at bay for a time, ferociously defending Maxim in an interview with The New York Press in November 2000.
(10) initially, primarily
Kolokacji: 2
(12) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2

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