"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
1. defy categorization = oprzyj się kategoryzacji defy categorization
2. defy stereotypes = przecz stereotypom defy stereotypes
  • He has the inspirational story of defying stereotypes in a nearly all-white sport.
  • As a highly talented and intellectual teenager, she defies various stereotypes.
  • These communities defy stereotypes that African Americans cannot survive without white influence.
  • Defying stereotypes, the talent does not stop at the piano and violin.
  • But powerful executives sometimes defy stereotypes in the chairs they choose for themselves.
  • Furthermore, you have to make Nora the kind of woman who would defy sexual stereotypes and go into heavy weight lifting.
  • This film is also trying to raise awareness for breast cancer as well as defy stereotypes of age.
  • The thrill of the restaurant, unlike the moving company, is that it defies stereotypes about what ex-convicts can do.
  • An increasing number of women are defying stereotypes and rising to the challenges of the interim executive role.
  • A native of Puerto Rico, he loved to defy ethnic stereotypes.
3. defy classification = przeciwstaw się kategorii defy classification
4. defy categories = przeciwstaw się kategoriom defy categories
(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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