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Meaning defy meaning

What does defy mean?
Definitions in simple English

defy Verb

— When you defy someone, you refuse to do what he or she wants you to do. He is going to defy her orders for him to come here. — When you defy something, you challenge it. That politician is willing to defy public opinion, even if it is not politically popular.

defy Noun

— A defy is a challenge to something.

defy

— verb (= withstand, hold) resist or confront with resistance The politician defied public opinion The new material withstands even the greatest wear and tear The bridge held — verb elude, especially in a baffling way This behavior defies explanation — verb (= dare) challenge I dare you!

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Conjugation defy conjugation

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Simple sentences

I defy you to solve the problem.
I defy you to solve this problem.
We defy our foes, for our passion makes us strong!
Sentences that are not translated defy the purpose of Tatoeba.
Haptic sensations defy precise description.
Do not defy destiny.

Movie subtitles

Nevertheless, I want to see if the people have the courage to defy my will!
You dare defy it?
This will teach you to defy Prince John!
You're willing to defy Sir Guy, even Prince John himself.
It could be dangerous to defy a man in my position.
Take him back so that he can kill more people and defy the authorities?
I wish there were more men in Spain with the courage to defy His Grace.
We defy augury.
Do you wish to defy our common standards?
No one here can defy the count.
Well, let's defy him just this once.
You can't defy convention.
Don't defy Caligula.
The real story of the ocean depths begins where you left off -- wonders that defy my powers of description.
And you cannot defy your superiors' orders?
I cast off your yoke! I defy you! Come on!
I defy anyone to question my motives in this matter.
Then you defy me.
So, you brazen wench, you defy me!
So you defy me, too?
He's the man you selected from among you to defy me, to prey upon me, to threaten my life.
My own impulse, like Sir John's, is to defy Phillip.
Not a whit. We defy augury.
You let the dove defy the tiger in its den?
Look in the papers: one cannot defy human laws with impunity.
Perhaps I wanted to defy my son-in-law.
The real story of the ocean depths begins where you left off, wonders that defy my powers of description.
We can't defy the powerful.
We defy the Provincial Government!
I defy you to guess the nature of Kim Stanger's premonition. although we shall give you numerous clues in the prologue. which we now present immediately.
Where are the great leviathans who defy God then?
Or at least defy her.
I might be wrong to defy the King.
Don't defy your father, Francis.
I cannot defy the guidance of God.
What, do you dare to defy this council. and me?
Big choice. Defend myself or defy you.

News and current affairs

Their ability to defy the president may be aided by the fact that the Kremlin is failing to recognize the potential of their challenge.
The foremost advocate of sanctions, she has been more willing to defy German public opinion and business interests on the issue than on any other.
Historical forces are complex; they defy any simple economic theory.
Along with Russia, China has backed Syria in the Security Council, and it was recently revealed that Iran helped Syria to defy international sanctions by providing a ship to transport oil from Syria to a state-owned company in China.
As the world prepares to confront an Iranian regime that continues to defy the International Atomic Energy Agency on its nuclear programs, we must listen to what Iran's leaders say as we watch what they do.
The governance challenge stems from the fact that cyberspace is a combination of virtual properties, which defy geographical boundaries, and physical infrastructure, which fall under sovereign jurisdictions.
Russia's government is now doing its best to prove that, while difficult, it is possible to defy the laws of business physics and kill investments that are already in the pipeline.
Political and military rulers have managed to rally Islamic clerics behind opposition to religious reform, silencing anyone who dared to defy them.
Human rights bodies, media associations, and lawyers' organizations are expected to defy the emergency, which will pit them against the security forces.
The clerics openly defy the state.
The six rapists who killed the young woman were not modern decadents who chose to defy God and nature by claiming new secular freedoms, let alone heterodox sexual identities.
Powered by new media, identities are beginning to form around new networks of social interaction that often defy state boundaries and have little connection to liberal democracy's traditional institutions of governance.
But, as predictable as Russia's undemocratic system of governance usually is, the country does defy expectations once in a while.
But watching the Burmese monks on television defy the security forces of one of the world's most oppressive regimes, it is hard not to see some merit in religious belief.
On May 21, a brave woman named Manal al Sharif broke the silence and apathy, daring to defy the ban on women driving.
That will remain true for high-value-added services that defy automation.
The answer can't be found in the specific policy proposals of Republicans or Democrats, which have evolved so much over the years that they defy meaningful generalization.
They might be able to defy the European Commission, but they would be hard-pressed to resist the views of the bond markets.
Iran, whose influence in the Levant is not so much the cause of unresolved problems in the Middle East as the result of them, continues to defy the imposition of new sanctions by the United Nations Security Council.
Koizumi's approach was to defy the LDP's leaders by appealing over their heads directly to the electorate.
Unlike former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori's daughter, who lost her presidential bid in Peru last month, Park is likely to defy her family's tragic history.
But, rather than depending on fusion researchers to defy the odds, the world should step up investment in the technology.
We will continue to defy Putin and his efforts to reduce Ukraine to a semi-sovereign buffer state.
Syria's Assad dynasty, however, seems to believe that it can defy that dictum.

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