"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 nature = przecz naturze defy nature
2. defy reality = igraj z rzeczywistością defy reality
  • The work on illusions, though, carries the implications of this research further, pointing to the usefulness of such attitudes even when they defy reality.
  • Inside, a performance commences that seems to defy logic and reality.
  • To treat it like any other country would defy reality, they say.
  • In fact they are doing exactly what they spent decades accusing their communist counterparts from doing - attempting to defy reality.
  • More importantly, one that explores the philosophical implications of a seeming sense defying reality.
  • From the beginning, though, Marfa has had a self-image that defies reality.
  • This is a great improvement over the days when television defied reality and insisted that marriage was a constant state of unblemished monogamy.
  • "It's defying reality to say that I haven't talked about education."
  • It defies psychological and technological reality, too.
  • Unfortunately, the Administration's latest budget proposal again defies reality.
3. defy the stigma = bądź wbrew piętnu defy the stigma
4. defy credibility = przeciwstaw się wiarygodności 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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