"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 • ...

Kolokacji: 1

Grup znaczeniowych: 1

Kolokacji: 9

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

The company successfully defied a judge's order to produce the figures.
"You think we can successfully defy the regent and her majority?"
"That's like saying the local district did not successfully defy the laws of gravity; therefore they shouldn't get their schools back," he said.
Pearl Jam has successfully defied the commercial routines of the 1990's.
But they didn't know of anyone who'd ever been able to successfully defy or escape the Directorate, either.
So large an extent of woodland successfully defies landscape gardening.
Around 12:30 a.m. yesterday, they said, he and a partner were well on their way to successfully defying the conventional wisdom.
Perhaps for the first time in her life, Lilly felt entirely helpless, pitted against forces she could neither fully understand nor successfully defy.
Escobedo liked to be compared with a chief of state, better still one who had defied the yanquis so successfully for a generation.
No, there had to be a more ingenious method, one that had successfully defied detection for so long.

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

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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