"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 tradition = oprzyj się tradycji defy tradition
  • But a campaign that defies tradition has its dangers.
  • But the Foe has defied tradition for more than forty years.
  • Thus was born what would become Friedman's strategy in the mid-1990s, as it defied tradition and embarked on a pattern of wild growth.
  • You defy authority and tradition and governments and such things.
  • They share their stories of defying tradition, loving against all odds and being true to oneself.
  • But couples who dare to defy tradition tend to rise above such resentment.
  • In any case, dying is a tradition, and I am simply not the type of fellow who defies tradition.
  • Yet it was not only about matters of education that Kassindja's father defied tradition.
  • But both selections defied tradition; goaltenders often have the inside track.
  • But after years of running a successful catering business from home, making lunch boxes for Japanese businessmen, she defied tradition and opened her tiny restaurant.
3. defy custom = przecz zwyczajowi defy custom
(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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