"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
(14) demand, call, identification
Kolokacji: 3
1. defy demands = zignoruj żądania defy demands
2. defy calls = bądź wbrew rozmowom telefonicznym defy calls
  • MICHAEL Heseltine last night defied calls for his resignation after his pits closure plans turned into a fiasco.
  • Prime Minister Branko Mikulic today defied calls for his resignation made by Yugoslavia's two most Westernized republics.
  • On a day when Mr. Suharto defied calls to step down immediately, the students are treating his Government with undisguised contempt.
  • In Milwaukee, Wisconsin's biggest city, teachers defied calls from school administrators and their unions to stay on the job.
  • The Government, headed by Lieut. Gen. Henri Namphy, is defying calls for its resignation.
  • The contract, if it goes into effect with the current Bosnian Serb political leadership still in place, would defy calls by the Clinton Administration to shun those leaders.
  • Then music companies saw sales decline as people swapped music over the Internet, openly defying calls from the industry to stop.
  • The two encounter several death defying close calls before Woody manages to secure Buzz and escort him to I. Gypem's office.
  • Mr. Redwood today defied calls to drop out.
  • Russia has agreed to sell two nuclear power stations to India, defying calls to punish New Delhi because of its testing of nuclear weapons.
3. defy identification = przecz identyfikacji defy identification
(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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