"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
(16) deeply, profoundly
Kolokacji: 2
1. deeply opposed = głęboko sprzeciwić się deeply opposed
2. profoundly opposed = głęboko sprzeciwić się profoundly opposed
  • Like the populists, the pious Protestants were profoundly opposed to Irish nationalism and republicanism and hence tended to be aggressive in defence of the Union with Britain.
  • She wrote in a letter to The New York Times in 1976, "I am profoundly opposed to Ronald Reagan.
  • Although keen to attract industry into funding health science, he is profoundly opposed to companies setting up 'slush funds' that would cover the costs of a particular project.
  • Oppenheimer's view of the state is profoundly opposed to the then dominant characterisation propounded by G. W. F. Hegel of the state as an admirable achievement of modern civilisation.
  • It's hard to reckon, for one, how a man and a woman with such profoundly opposed viewpoints on matters of life and death could live in harmony for so many years.
  • Both Smiths, however, were profoundly opposed to a number of practices, especially plural marriage, and refused to join the Utah church.
  • Because the raven and coyote reconcile profoundly opposed concepts (i.e., life and death), their own mythical personalities must reflect this duality or contradiction: in other words, they must have a contradictory, "tricky" personality.
  • Sofer was profoundly opposed to the reformers and attacked them in his speeches and writings.
  • Throughout his life he was profoundly opposed to all forms of socialism and fascism.
  • President Bush arrived in office so profoundly opposed to peacekeeping that he scarcely bothered with post-conflict planning in Iraq.
(18) fundamentally, necessarily
Kolokacji: 2
(19) most, simply
Kolokacji: 2
(21) unanimously, solidly
Kolokacji: 2
(22) flatly, categorically
Kolokacji: 2

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