"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
  • It was a large base and would be stoutly defended.
  • State governments around the country stoutly defend their use of foster children's benefits.
  • If we have to come back in a hurry, I look forward to returning to a stoutly defended position.
  • The British forces defended stoutly, suffering 1,000 casualties in the first day alone.
  • For 42 desperate minutes Boro defended stoutly, but held on.
  • For more than 20 years, poultry producers have stoutly defended the use of all antibiotics.
  • Pace officials stoutly defend their new product and say that if people want to eat salsa without the burn, they should be able to.
  • But Lanier stoutly defended "what we were really doing" as valid science.
  • Many scientists, economists and industry leaders stoutly defend the change from collective ownership of fishing rights to private.
  • But she stoutly defended her magazine for backing feminist goals like access to abortion.
3. firmly defend = stanowczo obroń firmly defend
4. resolutely defend = stanowczo obroń resolutely defend
(10) initially, primarily
Kolokacji: 2
(12) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2

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