"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
(12) threat, warning
Kolokacji: 2
1. defy threats = zignoruj groźby defy threats
  • But Sri Lankans continue to be urged by candidates to defy threats and vote, as much to save the democratic system as to choose a candidate.
  • Exactly two years ago they defied threats and violence to vote overwhelmingly for independence from a quarter century of Indonesian occupation.
  • But on Friday night, members of Congress, which had been in recess, returned to their building, defying threats by Government security forces that they would be expelled.
  • He also hangs onto the rest, defying threats by Pino and his cohorts to hand over their shares.
  • In two elections, millions voted, defying terrorist threats.
  • A respected hero figure boldly defying threats of death and torture was safer than a nonentity.
  • Hundreds of protesters had stood all week in the wintry cold, singing songs and defying threats of violence and arrest.
  • On Aug. 30, 1999, nearly 98 percent of East Timor's voters defied threats and cast their ballots in a referendum on independence.
  • She defied the defamation and threats by Islamic extremists who wanted to ban women entirely from public appearance.
  • On September 25, 2007, 2,000 monks and supporters defied threats from Burma's junta.
2. defy warnings = zignoruj ostrzeżenia defy warnings
(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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