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- DictionaryDe·fy/dəˈfī/
verb
- 1. openly resist or refuse to obey: "a woman who defies convention"
Defy definition: to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly. See examples of DEFY used in a sentence.
The meaning of DEFY is to confront with assured power of resistance : disregard. How to use defy in a sentence.
DEFY definition: 1. to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.: 2. to be extreme or very strange…. Learn more.
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.
DEFY meaning: 1. to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.: 2. to be extreme or very strange…. Learn more.
used to say that somebody should try to do something, as a way of emphasizing that you think it is impossible to do it. I defy anyone not to cry at the end of the film. I defy you to leave without buying something.
Defy definition: To be beyond the application or scope of; be contrary or resistant to.
If you defy someone or something that is trying to make you behave in a particular way, you refuse to obey them and behave in that way. This was the first (and last) time that I dared to defy my mother.
I defy you to leave without buying something. Definition of defy verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
DEFY meaning: 1. to refuse to obey someone or something: 2. to be impossible to believe/describe/explain, etc…. Learn more.