"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
  • She was the kind of woman who would fiercely defend herself.
  • I have also heard several fellow Members fiercely defend nuclear energy, in terms of both costs and safety.
  • But an even better question is, Where are the doctors fiercely defending their professional integrity?
  • But the promoters fiercely defend their American right to do well by doing good.
  • Others say he is simply rooted in his convictions and does not feel the need to fiercely defend them.
  • But there were also others fiercely defending the school.
  • The system has been fiercely defended by several carriers as essential to their survival.
  • The city was fiercely defended for many months against all the measures the Romans could bring to bear.
  • And then he would scream at them, fiercely defending what he had done.
  • Even though individuals may live anywhere in town, somewhere there's a home turf that's fiercely defended.
2. vehemently defend = gwałtownie obroń vehemently defend
3. ferociously defend = gwałtownie bronić ferociously defend
(10) initially, primarily
Kolokacji: 2
(12) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2

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