0 present participle of defy --
1 to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.: --
I defy you to tell where I've painted over the scratch on my car.
I defy you to prove your accusations.
The chaos at the airport defies description.
A forest fire raging in southern California is defying (= is not changed by) all attempts to control it.
The fact that aircraft don't fall out of the sky always seems to me to defy (= act against) the law of gravity.
A few workers have defied the majority decision and gone into work despite the strike.
Men, in contrast, enjoy the illegal income and activities for the sense of defying authority and getting away with it.
Accepting the idea of local traits should not lead to ascribing such traits as in-a-hurry-compassion and defying-authority-compassion, but to ascribing such traits as compassion-defying-authority-in-the-presence-of-a-passive-bystanderwho-is-not-a-prior-acquaintance-when-not-in-a-hurry-and-where-theperson-in-need-of-help-is-not-an-acquaintance.
If a comrade were in serious trouble, they were sworn to help him out even if that meant defying their father or former master.
Do you think there are plays that are defying the white critics' misreadings of the culturally unfamiliar?
There was more to this treason, some element which, while never quite defying logic, nevertheless twisted it to suit a particular goal.
The authorities therefore might have to deal with 13,000 women defying the law.
Semiotics is a large and complex field, defying easy summary.
In short, it is a numerical way of defying the accountants.
