Defied can be categorized as a verb.
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| defy - challenge; "I dare you!" | ||
| defy - resist or confront with resistance; "The politician defied public opinion"; "The new material withstands even the greatest wear and tear"; "The bridge held" | ||
| defy - elude, especially in a baffling way; "This behavior defies explanation" |
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| 1. | verb | Winter defied his own board and Gov. Gray Davis when he filed a 50-page request to remove the caps, records and interviews show. | |
| 2. | verb | He defied me to dive off the cliff. | |
| 3. | verb | They defied the policeman's order. | |
| 4. | verb | They defied the laws of the king. | |
| 5. | verb | Dan's story defied common sense. | |
| 6. | verb | Mary defied her father's wishes. | |
| 7. | verb | On we stride / through shadowy ways; and I who rushing spear / and thronging foes but lately had defied, / now fear each sound, each whisper of the air, / trembling for him I lead, and for the charge I bear. | |
| 8. | verb | In the Athens suburb of Agia Parasksevi earlier this week, more than 400 young Greeks defied social-distancing rules by buying take-away drinks from local pubs and turning the district's main square into a massive, open-air block party. | |
| 9. | verb | The patterns of those pulsations have so far defied understanding. | |
| 10. | verb | Some villagers defied a coronavirus curfew to join the navy and coast guard, wading into the breaking surf to push the small whales back into the water. | |
| 11. | verb | When Yanni defied his boss's instructions, it was the final straw. | |
| 12. | verb | The porcupine rolled itself into a ball, radiating long, sharp needles in all directions that defied attack. | |
| 13. | verb | It was a situation that defied description. | |
| 14. | verb | I defy you to make it public. | |
| 15. | verb | I defy you to solve the problem. |
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| Winter defied his own board and Gov. Gray Davis when he filed a 50-page request to remove the caps, records and interviews show. |
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| He defied me to dive off the cliff. | |
| They defied the policeman's order. | |
| They defied the laws of the king. | |
| Dan's story defied common sense. | |
| Mary defied her father's wishes. | |
| On we stride / through shadowy ways; and I who rushing spear / and thronging foes but lately had defied, / now fear each sound, each whisper of the air, / trembling for him I lead, and for the charge I bear. | |
| In the Athens suburb of Agia Parasksevi earlier this week, more than 400 young Greeks defied social-distancing rules by buying take-away drinks from local pubs and turning the district's main square into a massive, open-air block party. | |
| The patterns of those pulsations have so far defied understanding. | |
| Some villagers defied a coronavirus curfew to join the navy and coast guard, wading into the breaking surf to push the small whales back into the water. | |
| When Yanni defied his boss's instructions, it was the final straw. | |
| The porcupine rolled itself into a ball, radiating long, sharp needles in all directions that defied attack. | |
| It was a situation that defied description. | |
| I defy you to make it public. | |
| I defy you to solve the problem. | |