Defy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFY in dictionary:

VERB:
• to resist openly and boldly
• openly resist or refuse to obey
• be of such a kind or nature that (a specified attitude or action) is almost impossible
• appear to be challenging (someone) to do or prove something
• challenge (someone) to fight
• 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.
• resist or confront with resistance
• elude, especially in a baffling way
• resist openly and boldly
NOUN:
• A challenge.

Words related to DEFY

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Words that contain DEFY

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How to use DEFY in a sentence

• No, one good streak of luck will set me up where I can defy him.
• At last, in 1848, the opposition resolved on a great banquet in Paris, to defy the government.
• You defy me, well knowing that you could, in a moment, bring upon me a vengeance terrible and complete.
• I shall go up to London and defy Lord RHONDDA to his face.
• We might defy the little arts of the little politicians to control or vary the irresistible and unchangeable course of nature.
• Meredith would probably call epigrams, and I would defy anyone to say they were wise, graceful or witty.
• Venizelos excluded these delegates from the chamber he would defy the sentiments of the Greek people.
• Marry, I neither defy the manna of Saint Nicholas, nor can I dispense with it.
• Imagine all this, and still I defy you to prove that we will be the poorer in consequence.
• The man covers his body with warm clothing and carries with him furs and robes enough to be seemingly able to defy the storms.
• If the Moors are right, the age of the elders of the forest is to be counted in centuries, and the wood can defy the attacks of insects that make short-work of other trees.
• He had an impulse to defy them, to gain the street and give the alarm to honest men.
• When once thrown upon the heap, they defy the closest scrutiny of the owners.
• It is, of course, necessary to give the individual no suspicion that he is being watched, as that would put him so effectually on his guard as, possibly, to defy detection.
• But now Lady Dauntrey was abandoning all hope that Society might let her pass over its threshold, and she was willing to defy it for the sake of money.
• It contains carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, and various salts, but is so complex as to defy exhaustive analysis.
• He would defy any laws or lose any friends to show mercy to the humblest beast or the most hidden bird.
• The disposition to defy Cooper shot, in some instances, indeed, beyond its proper mark, and extended even to the rules of grammar.
• Now and then there are scenes in the mountains that defy the written word.
• But Adelaide was aware she had a part to act, and she went through it with an ease and self-possession that seemed to defy all scrutiny.
• On the other hand we may defy the composer himself and take simply what he gives, as if on first performance, before the commentators have had a chance to breed.
• After all, the illusion of youth is a mental habit consciously encouraged to defy and face down the reality of age.
• All three felt themselves under divine command to resist and defy the persecutors.
• There was Aunt Eleanor, but I defy anyone to be fond of her.
• Without you I am naught, and if I defy Holofernes, my fortitude is yours and my resolve springs from you.
• The schemes of spoliation that defy the officers of the law are, for the most part, inaugurated and directed by legal minds.
• Thus to defy tradition is to refuse all the gifts the past can make to us, and cut ourselves off from the cumulative experiences of the race.
• I not only call upon him to prove them, but I defy him to prove them.
• Especially was this the case when it became the duty of every lover of his kind to defy the Fugitive Slave Law.
• I will take an unit from each of these numbers, and even then I defy any man to shew me how that body could have been assembled but by a conspiracy.
• In this rough wilderness spot she felt secure from their grasp, and with John Hampton near she was ready and willing to defy the whole world.

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