Usually means: Refused to obey or conform.
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  1. defied: Merriam-Webster
  2. defied: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defied: Collins English Dictionary
  4. defied: Vocabulary.com
  5. Defied, defied: Wordnik
  6. defied: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. defied: Wiktionary
  8. Defied, defied: Dictionary.com
  9. defied: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Defied: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Defied: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. defied: FreeDictionary.org
  13. defied: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. defied: Legal dictionary

(Note: See defy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (defy)

verb:  (transitive) To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition).
verb:  (transitive) To refuse to obey.
verb:  To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
noun:  (obsolete) A challenge.
▸ Also see defy


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