"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
2. defy one's efforts = przeciwstawiać się czyjś wysiłki defy one's efforts
  • It has, after all, defied their very best efforts so far.
  • She tried to flatten them out on the sand, but they defied her efforts.
  • But the same warping made the door defy their efforts to raise it any higher.
  • It cuts conversation to a few shouts and defies anyone's efforts to keep clean.
  • The wall defied their best efforts to even scratch it with anything short of explosive devices.
  • We started with the books, which had defied our past halfhearted efforts to weed them out.
  • Often he brought back materials or devices that defied the scientists' best efforts to duplicate them.
  • Boxing has long defied efforts to clean it up.
  • McGwire has defied efforts of teams to find his weakness.
  • But this was a wall that defied his efforts to tear it down because it could not be seen or felt.
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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