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defy (verb)

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  • defy — ► VERB (defies, defied) 1) openly resist or refuse to obey. 2) challenge to do or prove something. DERIVATIVES defier noun. ORIGIN Old French desfier, from Latin fidus faithful …   English terms dictionary

  • defy — verb ADVERB ▪ openly ▪ Journalists were openly defying the authorities. VERB + DEFY ▪ be prepared to (esp. BrE), be willing to ▪ He is willing to defy his own party …   Collocations dictionary

  • defy — verb defied, defying (T) 1 to refuse to obey a law or rule, or refuse to do what someone in authority tells you to do: He defied his father s wishes and married Agnes. 2 defy description/analysis/imagination etc to be so extreme or unusual that… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • defy — I verb affront, assume a fighting attitude, battle, beard, brave, breast, buck, challenge, conflict with, confront, dare, disobey, disregard, flout, front, mutiny, oppose, outface, provocare, rebel, resist, resist openly, stand up against,… …   Law dictionary

  • defy — verb 1) he defied local law Syn: disobey, go against, flout, fly in the face of, disregard, ignore; break, violate, contravene, breach, infringe Ant: obey 2) his actions defy be …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • defy — verb (defies, defying, defied) 1》 openly resist or refuse to obey. 2》 challenge to do or prove something: he glowered at her, defying her to mock him.     ↘be of such a kind or nature that (a specified action or attitude) is almost impossible:… …   English new terms dictionary

  • defy — verb Syn: disobey, flout, disregard, ignore, break, violate, contravene, breach, challenge, confront Ant: obey …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • defy — [[t]dɪfa͟ɪ[/t]] defies, defying, defied 1) VERB If you defy someone or something that is trying to make you behave in a particular way, you refuse to obey them and behave in that way. [V n] This was the first (and last) time that I dared to defy… …   English dictionary

  • defy — 1. noun A challenge. 2. verb a) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce. to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public… …   Wiktionary

  • defy */ — UK [dɪˈfaɪ] / US verb [transitive] Word forms defy : present tense I/you/we/they defy he/she/it defies present participle defying past tense defied past participle defied 1) to refuse to obey someone or something The commander defied a direct… …   English dictionary

  • defy — [14] The underlying notion of defy is of the renunciation of allegiance. It comes via Old French defier from a Vulgar Latin *disfidāre ‘renounce one’s faith’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis , denoting reversal, and Latin fīdus… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

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