"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
3. defy analysis = bądź wbrew analizie defy analysis
4. defy reason = być wbrew rozumowi, działać wbrew rozumowi defy reason
5. defy definition = zignoruj definicję defy definition
6. defy solution = przecz rozwiązaniu defy solution
7. defy understanding = przecz rozumieniu defy understanding
  • Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding.
  • But getting from that point to the emergence of large structures in the universe has defied scientific understanding.
  • Chaos theory tells us that a big complicated system like that defies understanding.
  • The behavior of this big complicated system always defied understanding.
  • And their negroes, who had been told nothing, knew everything too, by that black grapevine telegraph system which defies white understanding.
  • It was invisible, a force beyond nature's laws, an unknown that defied understanding.
  • The catastrophe in eastern Congo defies superficial understanding and, for most of us, sustained concern.
  • If his literature defies easy understanding, so too does his life.
  • These issues are not so technical that they defy public understanding.
  • Even if their crimes defy understanding, we need to understand.
8. defy resolution = zignoruj uchwałę defy resolution
9. defy interpretation = zignoruj interpretację defy interpretation
10. defy summary = zignoruj streszczenie defy summary
(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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