Synonym: challenge, confront, disobey, disregard, ignore, resist. Similar words: defuse, defeat, define, defend, deface, defile, defame, defaced. Meaning: [dɪ'faɪ] v. 1. resist or confront with resistance 2. elude, especially in a baffling way 3. challenge.
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61) Mr Berezovsky alleged he was threatened with imprisonment if he continued to defy Mr Putin.
62) The Raiders could make a great second-half run, but that would defy logic.
63) Miss Defy screeched around a blind bend into the path of an oncoming sedan.
64) Simply to imagine it is to defy credibility: A phone rings in a boarding house in Mobile, Alabama.
65) You could, of course, defy convention and make all your early turns to the right.
66) Willing my heart to beat normally, I defy the urge to turn back or freeze or cry out.
67) Clinging to the hillside amid scenic splendour, these houses sternly defy gravity by not tumbling down to the sea below.
68) Nigel Mansell will defy critics who lament his departure from Formula One and make a success of Indy 500.
69) The woodcuts are only a few inches square, and defy the artists' desire for detail and extravagance.
70) Miners' leader Arthur Scargill's call to defy Tory union laws was rejected.
71) Helicopters appear to defy this rule by having wings that rotate within a disc.
72) In August 1991 Muscovites chose to defy the tanks of the old regime.
73) Edward Koren,[sentencedict.com] whose furry creatures often defy links to any known species?
74) I defy you to jump that high hurdle.
75) He won't allow anyone to defy his ministerial authority.
76) What vegetable and fruit defy anile result best?
77) Conservatives would defy our efforts at bootstrap improvements.
78) We defy the available Methods: To estimate them quantitatively.
79) Kratos: You defy the God of War!
80) The instruments were employed in different toning and timing for staged applications of the construction. Specific sustained sound vibration enabled the building blocks to defy gravity.
81) His belief in the value of free thought and speech, and his merry willingness to defy authority, caused him to be an adamant opponent of McCarthyism.
82) Members of a group of mostly aquatic, photosynthetic organisms ( see photosynthesis ) that defy precise definition.
83) President Bush has ordered his former White House counsel Harriet Miers to defy a congressional subpoena.
84) Fierce - browed , I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers ; headbowed , like a willing ox I serve the children.
85) Recently completed by Kazuya Morita Architecture, the Pentagonal House comes to defy our perception of residential symmetries.
86) Indeed, those recalcitrant minor key songs that defy generalization about the link between tonality and mood may tell us something more important about music than the ones that conform.
87) Knee arthritis, which is prevalent among the aged and women, is a common disease that features joint pains, arthroncus and anchylosis that defy free movement.
88) I defy any one to assign an incident wherein reason will not direct us what we are to say or do in company, if we are not misled by pride or ill nature.
89) Languorous chords seem to defy gravity as ambient synthesizer textures frame the music with golden glow.
90) I have herded imaginary sheep until they insisted on turning themselves into white bears or blue pigs, and I defy any reasonable man to fall asleep while mustering a herd of cerulean swine.
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