"oppose" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

oppose verbo

oppose + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 153
oppose abortion • oppose efforts • oppose marriage • oppose action • oppose one's policies • oppose one's decision • oppose attempts • ...
verbo + oppose
Kolokacji: 5
continue to oppose • lead to oppose • dare oppose • urge to oppose • hold opposing
oppose + preposición
Kolokacji: 28
opposed to • oppose by • oppose without • oppose on • oppose in • ...
oppose + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 107
strongly oppose • vehemently opposed • adamantly opposed • vigorously oppose • diametrically opposed • bitterly opposed • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 25
(1) strongly, effectively
Kolokacji: 2
(3) adamantly, implacably
Kolokacji: 2
(6) bitterly, virulently
Kolokacji: 2
(7) initially, originally
Kolokacji: 2
(8) generally, specifically
Kolokacji: 2
(14) successfully, unsuccessfully
Kolokacji: 2
  • The attorney general's office, however, successfully opposed similar applications in several later cases.
  • However, the community successfully opposed its merger with another college.
  • But here, as in other states, businesses have successfully opposed such legislation.
  • In Africa he successfully opposed the darkness; now, suddenly, his victory doesn't seem so final.
  • No man could successfully oppose a god's direct will.
  • It also successfully opposed another parking garage proposal at that time.
  • By that time she had become a veteran at successfully opposing such luxury developments.
  • It was successfully opposed by Vauban (in his only ever field command).
  • Annex area residents, along with other resident groups, successfully opposed its construction.
  • Williamson successfully opposed an application by Australian actors to form a union in 1913.
(16) deeply, profoundly
Kolokacji: 2
(18) fundamentally, necessarily
Kolokacji: 2
(19) most, simply
Kolokacji: 2
(21) unanimously, solidly
Kolokacji: 2
(22) flatly, categorically
Kolokacji: 2

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