"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

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

Kolokacji: 5

1. defy nature = przecz naturze defy nature

2. defy reality = igraj z rzeczywistością defy reality

3. defy the stigma = bądź wbrew piętnu defy the stigma

4. defy credibility = przeciwstaw się wiarygodności defy credibility

Once again, the United States defies credibility in its purported support of democracy and human rights.
He also found that Bertoncello's in court testimony was "contrived and defy credibility".
It defies credibility to allow these failures to ever again have similar responsiblities.
Feeling helpless and desperate and alone, she sought means to voice a horror that defied credibility.
Now, having traveled four hundred miles west on Omega, he had encountered a phenomenon that defied credibility: the end of it.
The notion of a 101-year-old woman who could climb up on a ship's railing defies credibility.
The baby's skin was a soft creamy white and her dark lashes so long and silky they defied credibility.
But psychiatrists outside the company said this claim defied credibility, especially given Martha's age.
His uncensored stories about his sexual relations defy credibility - not to mention good taste.
After finishing "Archangel," when you think about what happens, you find it so outlandish as to defy credibility.

5. defy probability = przeciwstaw się prawdopodobieństwu defy probability

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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