"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
  • Television cooks defy time, and they are immune to the unforeseen.
  • Except to have kids to defy time when he takes thee hence.
  • He was trying to make sure humanity could hear and respect its own voices, all of them, in recordings that defy time.
  • She is the only deity who defies both death and time.
  • We shall take our turn at these great engines that devour distance and defy time.
  • Here the eternalness of the East defied time, shrouding them both.
  • There are clinging lifts that seem to defy time and gravity.
  • E-mail lists have allowed individuals to create groups that defy geography and time.
  • Only the solid square shape of the house, built to defy time, hadn't been changed by the years.
  • Pyramids were built to endure, made to defy both time and humanity.
2. defy history = zignoruj historię defy 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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