"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
(15) time, history, age
Kolokacji: 3
1. defy time = przeciwstaw się czasowi defy time
2. defy history = zignoruj historię defy history
  • "They would have to defy history at this point," Mr. Dowd said.
  • This company, we must note, is one of the vanishing few that dare to defy history in this way.
  • But these waters defied history, and everything that generations had passed down about where it was safe to live and farm.
  • Defying history, logic and the reality of Yankee Stadium, they have become a right-handed team.
  • It will have to defy history for them to be correct.
  • If he thinks the public will support a party that tries to raise taxes over one that opposes the idea, he's defying political history.
  • "The lines defy geography, history, nature and reason for a single goal: getting an ethnically correct Council."
  • More broadly, the whole idea of giving local managers more flexibility defies history, however reasonable it appears on the surface.
  • But the chance of two wars occurring at the same time defies history.
  • If the plan works, the Fed will have defied recent history.
3. defy age = przeciwstaw się wiekowi defy age
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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