"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

1. defy categorization = oprzyj się kategoryzacji defy categorization

2. defy stereotypes = przecz stereotypom defy stereotypes

3. defy classification = przeciwstaw się kategorii defy classification

4. defy categories = przeciwstaw się kategoriom defy categories

For some, Schnittke is an affecting musical mystic who defies categories.
Obama has said that his foreign-policy ideas defy traditional categories and ideologies.
It also had daytime discussions on strategies to market music that defies both radio formats and retail categories.
Many of the tactics also defy simple categories like official desertion.
Two of the most extraordinary bands defied categories and tore apart verse-chorus-verse forms.
Experimental galleries served up fresh names that defied easy categories.
Some of her reasons for holding off defy conventional categories.
The situation defied neat categories, since many people constantly changed sides.
To begin with, this pope defies familiar categories.
Lyle Lovett is someone who defies categories, and does it well.

(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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