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To defy is to openly refuse to do something. You can defy the no-costumes-in-class rule if you wear your fairy wings to school, but just don’t try to defy the laws of gravity unless you can actually fly. If you deliberately break a rule or ignore an order, you defy, or resist, that rule.
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The meaning of DEFY is to confront with assured power of resistance : disregard. How to use defy in a sentence.
Synonyms for DEFY: disobey, ignore, violate, resist, mock, dismiss, oppose, reject; Antonyms of DEFY: obey, follow, comply (with), conform (to), serve, submit (to), mind, yield (to)
verb. to resist (a powerful person, authority, etc) openly and boldly. to elude, esp in a baffling way. his actions defy explanation. formal. to challenge or provoke (someone to do something judged to be impossible); dare. I defy you to climb that cliff. archaic. to invite to do battle or combat.
DEFY meaning: 1. to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.: 2. to be extreme or very strange…. Learn more.
verb [ T ] uk / dɪˈfaɪ / us / dɪˈfaɪ / C2. to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.: It is rare to see children openly defying their teachers. A few workers have defied the majority decision and gone into work despite the strike.
to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.: It is rare to see children openly defying their teachers. A few workers have defied the majority decision and gone into work despite the strike. defy the law The fact that aircraft don't fall out of the sky always seems to me to defy (= act against) the law of gravity.
