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📖 Определения и значения для слова defy

📒 to refuse to obey or show respect for somebody in authority, a law, a rule, etc.

  • I wouldn't have dared to defy my teachers.
  • Hundreds of people today defied the ban on political gatherings.
  • He is willing to defy his own party.

📒 to be impossible or almost impossible to believe, explain, describe, etc.

  • a political move that defies explanation
  • The beauty of the scene defies description.
  • His face was so odd that it defies description.

📒 to successfully resist something to a very unusual degree

  • The baby boy defied all the odds and survived (= stayed alive when it seemed certain that he would die).

📒 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.
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