"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

1. defy authority = przeciwstaw się władzy defy authority

defy one's authority, defy authorities

2. defy comprehension = przecz zrozumieniu defy comprehension

3. defy comparison = oprzyj się porównaniu defy comparison

For all the attention devoted to computers and the Internet, the auto industry still defies comparison.
One pastel that defies comparison is "Crab Trap With Bait" (1987).
Gasoline charges defy comparison.
The data therefore defy comparison.
With few distinguishing characteristics of shape or structure, the lichens had defied comparison with the rest of the fungi.
Johnson is a free-spirited innovator who defies comparison.
The conflict's very basis defies comparison with any warfare we have faced in our history.
Moreover, Vitruvius's system is sufficiently distinct and peculiar to defy comparison with the others, and merits treatment in a special category all its own.
On the one hand, the Holocaust is seen as a unique event, defying comparison.
Amusing but defies comparison.

4. defy control = oprzyj się kontroli defy control

5. defy Hitler = przeciwstaw się Hitlerowi defy Hitler

(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

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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