Definition of Defy

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Definition of Defy

Defy

To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.

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.

A challenge.

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Defy Quotations

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
William Shakespeare

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.
Christopher Walken

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Samuel Alexander

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
Paul Hawken

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
Muhammad Iqbal

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
Clara Barton

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
James Connolly

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
Jonathan Lethem

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
Paul Getty

Defy Translations

defy in Danish is udfordre
defy in Dutch is uitdagen, tarten, trotseren, uittarten
defy in German is trotzen, herausdordern, trotze
defy in Italian is sfidare
defy in Norwegian is trosse, utfordre
defy in Spanish is desafiar
defy in Swedish is utmana, trotsa

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