Thesaurus: defy
To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
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Definitions
- v. t. To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
- v. t. To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion.
- n. A challenge.
- v. resist or confront with resistance
- v. elude, especially in a baffling way
- v. challenge
- v:100 v. resist or confront with resistance v. elude, especially in a baffling way v. challenge