"defy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

defy verbo

defy + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 61
defy orders • defy gravity • defy death • defy logic • defy expectations • defy the laws • defy description • defy authority • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 16
(1) order, law, ban, precedent
Kolokacji: 4
(3) logic, sense
Kolokacji: 2
(10) odds, wish
Kolokacji: 2
(11) attempt, effort, pressure
Kolokacji: 3
1. defy attempts = oprzyj się próbom defy attempts
  • Racing to the sea, defying attempts to put sun cream on them, and brattishly demand ing ice creams.
  • After all, Yonkers has adamantly defied attempts at racial integration for nearly a decade.
  • However, there remain a large number of problems in NP that defy such attempts, seeming to require super-polynomial time.
  • According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or equal it, though this belief is disputed.
  • The ring will not leave his hand and defies magical attempts to remove it.
  • One such pollution which defied attempts at on the spot diagnosis and, for a time, laboratory analysis as well was described by a supervising officer:
  • This tale highlights the sheer impenetrability of the classic car market, which for years has defied attempts to track and analyse its movements.
  • The signal was simple and brief, so brief it still defied attempts at decoding.
  • Where funk revels in repetition, most of the compositions defied attempts to pick out repeating bass lines or even to find the downbeat.
  • Something about the processing defied artificial attempts to speed it up; certainly it had been tried.
2. defy one's efforts = przeciwstawiać się czyjś wysiłki defy one's efforts
3. defy pressure = oprzyj się naciskowi defy pressure
(12) threat, warning
Kolokacji: 2
(13) father, fate, skeptic
Kolokacji: 3
(14) demand, call, identification
Kolokacji: 3
(15) time, history, age
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + defy
Kolokacji: 6
seem to defy • continue to defy • dare defy • continue defying • mean defying • ...
defy + preposición
Kolokacji: 8
defy in • defy on • defy with • defy by • defy from • ...
defy + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 9
openly defy • repeatedly defied • successfully defy • simply defy • consistently defied • ...

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