Defying is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFYING in dictionary:

VERB:
• DEFY, 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

Words related to DEFYING

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Words that contain DEFYING

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How to use DEFYING in a sentence

• Arminius stood on the other bank, threatening the renegade, and defying him to battle.
• And there is some merit in it, for to sensible stay-at-home folks it all seems like defying common sense.
• Then came the rain, a deluge, a straight, horizontal sheet that poured along like a river, defying gravitation.
• It did not take long, however, to show him that I could spend just as much time making him obey as he could spend defying me.
• Unfortunately the sheriff could not make out what they meant, and supposed they were defying him.
• It is a striking proof of the extraordinary solidity and tenacity of Roman architecture, defying the laws of gravitation.
• The United States has not, however, abandoned hope that Peiping will stop short of defying the will of mankind for peace.
• It is the descendant of Othman and of Etrogruhl the adventurer who sits to-day at Constantinople blocking the path to the East and defying Christendom.
• The young man, like a flash, brought his rifle to his shoulder and sighted at the savage who was still in plain sight, as if defying the whites to do their worst.
• She foresaw a gust of unpopularity against them, and she saw herself defending their interests and defying criticism.
• The Master-idea, we know, is to raise up a hero who, acting freely, independent of and ever defying the gods, will wrest the Ring from Fafner.
• He was continually defying, in a good-humoured way, those who were set over him, and more than once he had a very narrow escape of having his career cut short by dismissal.
• Tradition had it that an old squaw whose name was Wichita had bewitched the spot with her incantations, defying the wind to touch the ground on which she had lived and died.
• Sometimes they do really rebel, however, mastered by pure nature, in one of those tiresome moods where she shows the insolence of defying bloodless convention.
• His attitude was that of a man defying the other to ride him down, and the rider, accepting the challenge with a yell, drove at him like a Fury.
• All hurried on, driven by the fear of hunger, defying danger, not knowing if they would live till night, or if the sun rising over their heads would be the last in their lives.
• He did not achieve his optimism by ignoring Satan, but by defying him.
• Lane had been uncompromising in defying the Territorial laws.
• It was a definite command, and she had no thought of defying it.
• We speak of it as an easy matter, but it is a problem of the greatest delicacy, almost defying the mind of man to read the movements of matter.
• Mathias stood upon the pier, looking at his client, who leaned against the shrouds, defying the crowed before him with a glance of contempt.

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