"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

As the number of childless couples grows in Russia, parents are being offered an incentive to defy the Soviet stigma surrounding larger families.
Defying the powerful social stigma attached to interracial relationships, Oliver Golden entered a common-law marriage with Bertha Bialek, a young garment worker who had emigrated from Poland and had become a Communist while working in the sweatshops of New York's garment center in the 1920's.
Some traditionalists have embraced the labels "reactionary" and "counterrevolutionary", defying the stigma that has attached to these terms since the Enlightenment.

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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