"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
1. defy description = bądź nie do opisania defy description
  • What he had done to her face almost defies description.
  • Its location on a great river in the jungle almost defies description.
  • Clients, or their employers, pay $75 an hour and up for a service that defies easy description.
  • Others offer perks, which have recently become so complex as to defy description.
  • All were there, and many so strange that they defied simple description.
  • The structure and the principle behind them defy simple description.
  • But those are risks worth taking, the analysts said, because current conditions seem to defy description.
  • What had been done to the American embassy library defied description.
  • The works defy description in either content and range of material.
  • She could see the change in him quite clearly, although it was so slight as to defy description.
2. defy labels = bądź wbrew etykietom defy labels
3. defy characterization = zignoruj charakterystykę defy characterization
(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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