"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 • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 14

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 16

(1) order, law, ban, precedent

Kolokacji: 4

(2) gravity, death, physics, translation, boundary

Kolokacji: 5

(3) logic, sense

Kolokacji: 2

(4) expectation, belief, wisdom, credulity

Kolokacji: 4

(5) description, label, characterization

Kolokacji: 3

(6) authority, comprehension, comparison, Hitler, control

Kolokacji: 5

(7) convention, tradition, custom

Kolokacji: 3

(8) explanation, prediction, analysis, reason, definition, ...

Kolokacji: 10

(9) categorization, stereotype, classification, category

Kolokacji: 4

(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

(15) time, history, age

Kolokacji: 3

1. defy time = przeciwstaw się czasowi defy time

2. defy history = zignoruj historię defy history

3. defy age = przeciwstaw się wiekowi defy age

It was a face that defied age.
There are some that lie in ruins, while others continue to stand, defying age.
But in her energy and enthusiasms, Redgrave seems to defy age.
For Mr. Inkawhich, 43, his creations, whether made from pine cones or camellia leaves, "are about beauty defying old age."
Not young, either of them, but their straight backs defied age.
In reality, he is a scientist who thinks ahead of his own time and even defies age (he was born in 1884).
Now they are defying age.
He had one of those faces that defied age, he looked neither old nor young, but somewhere in between.
And while Clemens defied age again with a marvelous regular season, he slowed down the stretch.
As lithe as a boy, Mr. Jagger seems to defy age.

(16) nature, reality, credibility, stigma, probability

Kolokacji: 5

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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