"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
(13) father, fate, skeptic
Kolokacji: 3
1. defy one's father = przeciwstawiać się czyjś ojciec defy one's father
2. defy fate = przeciwstaw się losowi defy fate
  • What could one old woman do to defy fate?
  • How dare we defy fate by speaking ill of someone whose loss would be forever felt?
  • "She would refuse to accept it, or else defy fate."
  • Or would that not be defying fate?.the same fate that had reversed his own fortunes that very night?
  • HOW'S this for a cautionary tale about the folly of defying fate?
  • The lure is the rush: that heady moment when, for a split second, they defy gravity and fate.
  • It was as if every ounce of fierce hope had lifted him, as if by sheer will a man can defy gravity and fate.
  • "Star-crossed" is an expression referring to a situation in which one or more individuals attempts to defy fate.
  • I'd been in the grasslands, defying fate, stupidly but not unwillingly.
  • Mr. Ortega seemed to be defying fate in a solo about a dying man.
3. defy skeptics = przeciwstaw się sceptykom defy skeptics
(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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