"defy" nach Englisch mit Beispielen - Kollokationen-Wörterbuch Englisch

defy Verb

defy + Substantiv

Kolokacji: 61

defy orders • defy gravity • defy death • defy logic • defy expectations • defy the laws • defy description • defy authority • ...

Kolokacji: 14

1. defy orders = zignoruj polecenia defy orders

2. defy gravity = przeciwstaw się grawitacji defy gravity

3. defy death = igraj ze śmiercią defy death

4. defy logic = bądź sprzecznym z logiką defy logic

5. defy expectations = przecz oczekiwaniom defy expectations

Young artists are often happy to defy expectations and turn music on its head.
The show goes out of its way not to defy expectations but to exceed them.
And yet the crowds have already defied expectations, including their own.
She could not have named the reasons for this; it defied expectation.
The economy has defied expectations all through 1994, proving to be surprisingly strong.
Until now, he had defied expectations at every turn.
In an interview yesterday, he explained how the storm defied expectations.
To be sure, the turnaround in the Turkish economy has defied expectations.
And the economy continues to be sluggish, defying expectations that growth would pick up in the second half of the year.
If Boris defied expectations and developed a serum, well then, the more power to him.