"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
3. defy identification = przecz identyfikacji defy identification
  • The source material may defy identification.
  • The hard sausage had no flavor and defied identification.
  • Even as he said it, Greg knew the boy would defy identification, just like the chauffeur.
  • The hautboy player has similarly defied identification.
  • His own work defies identification as one style and ranges expressionism through traditional realism.
  • The vehicle wobbled closer, still engulfed in the cloud of dust, defying identification.
  • This thought-pulse, while defying identification or explanation, led all who had experienced it to the same conclusions.
  • Only in storms might this species be pushed into headlands, but even then an out of range bird would probably defy definite identification.
  • Her cooking defies identification in terms of classical or trendy cuisines.
  • In the ruins the remains of several persons were dis-covered, most of the bodies in states that defied easy 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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