"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
2. defy comprehension = przecz zrozumieniu defy comprehension
3. defy comparison = oprzyj się porównaniu defy comparison
4. defy control = oprzyj się kontroli defy control
5. defy Hitler = przeciwstaw się Hitlerowi defy Hitler
  • Most are old enough to have defied Hitler, either as Soviet soldiers or soldiers' wives.
  • "Defying Hitler" is a stage adaptation of the memoirs of Sebastian Haffner, a young man growing up in Berlin between the World Wars.
  • Nieuwsma won a second Emmy in 2006 for the film Defying Hitler.
  • Defying Hitler (film):
  • However, this volume also features Clizia, treated in a variety of poems, as a kind of bird-goddess who defies Hitler.
  • McDonough Frank, Sophie Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman Who Defied Hitler, History Press, 2009.
  • His book The Pope who Defied Hitler.
  • Years later, the image of the 12-year-old who defied Hitler on the podium became a symbol for Danish Resistance.
(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
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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