"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 • ...
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 • ...
1. openly defy = otwarcie przeciwstaw się openly defy
2. repeatedly defied = ciągle przeciwstawić się repeatedly defied
3. successfully defy = z powodzeniem przeciwstaw się successfully defy
4. simply defy = po prostu przeciwstaw się simply defy
5. consistently defied = konsekwentnie przeciwstawić się consistently defied
6. somehow defy = jakoś przeciwstaw się somehow defy
  • But the banking crisis also rebuts the popular wisdom that Japan can somehow defy the laws of economics and of human sense.
  • During its journey, the Palominos crew discovers a black hole with a nearby derelict ship somehow defying the hole's massive gravitational pull.
  • But that was an exception, a surge of love in the mans soul that somehow defied death, or delayed the souls termination something we cant understand.
  • And, a single span of unbuttressed arch, somehow defying gravity, stood there over the burrow as a token of this ambition.
  • It's ridiculous that a straightforward traffic-management problem that occurs at the same time every day, with the same people breaking the same rules, should somehow defy solution.
  • He made it to his feet, somehow defying gravity and the shining motes that swam before his eyes.
  • There were the scurrying sounds of rats, evidence that the creatures somehow defied the anti-rodent spells and poisons that were both periodically renewed.
  • "This upsets people because it somehow defies nature," says John Robertson, an expert in reproductive law.
  • While I hope that Bafana Bafana can somehow defy the odds and stay in the tournament, it is looking very tough.
  • They planned, had they somehow defied gravity and won the last election, to impose substantial cuts in government spending.
7. publicly defy = publicznie przeciwstaw się publicly defy
8. seemingly defy = pozornie przeciwstaw się seemingly defy
9. deliberately defy = rozmyślnie przeciwstaw się deliberately defy

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