"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 • ...
(1) order, law, ban, precedent
Kolokacji: 4
(3) logic, sense
Kolokacji: 2
2. defy belief = przecz wierze defy belief
3. defy wisdom = przecz mądrości defy wisdom
4. defy credulity = przeciwstaw się łatwowierności defy credulity
  • Then they defied credulity by reversing their message, claiming that the economy was in great shape and that their own policies were responsible for it.
  • The poverty of the administration at the richest union in the world has defied credulity, lurching from one crisis to the next with chequebook in hand.
  • When I got the assignment to write about this 200-year-old medical practice that defies credulity, I decided to pit homeopathy against my stubborn allergy symptoms.
  • It defies credulity that people are criticizing Israel for being proactive in defending itself against the existential threat posed by Iran.
  • For starters, it defies credulity to believe that Mr. Hussein, literally holed up in the ground, has been directing the resistance.
  • The School Library Journal wrote that "the story is somewhat convoluted and often defies credulity", but also praised the book's characters.
  • "To say they didn't know, to say they didn't understand, it just defies credulity," he said.
  • Your reporter cites some preposterous examples of teen-age naivete, that defy credulity, as typical to prove the point.
  • The idea that a major political party would pull a stunt like that days before the Presidential election utterly defies credulity.
  • To suggest that a highly skilled procedure such as a colonoscopy could ever take that little time defies credulity.
(10) odds, wish
Kolokacji: 2
(11) attempt, effort, pressure
Kolokacji: 3
(12) threat, warning
Kolokacji: 2
(13) father, fate, skeptic
Kolokacji: 3
(14) demand, call, identification
Kolokacji: 3
(15) time, history, age
Kolokacji: 3
Verb + defy
Kolokacji: 6
seem to defy • continue to defy • dare defy • continue defying • mean defying • ...
defy + Präposition
Kolokacji: 8
defy in • defy on • defy with • defy by • defy from • ...
defy + Adjektiv/Adverb
Kolokacji: 9
openly defy • repeatedly defied • successfully defy • simply defy • consistently defied • ...

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