Usually means: Resist or refuse to obey.
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  1. defy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. defy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. defy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Defy, defy: Wordnik
  7. defy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. defy: Wiktionary
  9. defy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. defy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. defy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Defy, defy: Dictionary.com
  13. defy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. defy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Defy (album), Defy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Defy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. defy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. defy: Rhymezone
  19. defy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. defy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. defy: Free Dictionary
  22. defy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. defy: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
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  1. DEFY: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defy: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ 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.

Similar:
refuse, resist, withstand, hold up, dare, hold, defie, forbid, bid defiance to, stand up against, more...

Opposite:
comply, obey, submit

Types:
go against, oppose, withstand, resist, brave, face, more...

Phrases:
defy description, Defy Media, Defy TV, defy authority, defy the odds, more...

Adjectives:
fierce, death, formal, grave, present, civil, light, few, english, cloudy, grim


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Similar:
refuse, resist, withstand, hold up, dare, hold, defie, forbid, bid defiance to, stand up against, more...

Opposite:
comply, obey, submit

Types:
go against, oppose, withstand, resist, brave, face, more...

Phrases:
defy description, Defy Media, Defy TV, defy authority, defy the odds, defy expectations, opposite of defy, defy gravity, to defy, to defy in spite of, defy logic, defy a boundary, defy convention, more...

Adjectives:
fierce, death, formal, grave, present, civil, light, few, english, cloudy, grim



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