Čo znamená defy v angličtine a aká je definícia defy?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť defy výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

defy Význam & definícia

0 to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.:
- It is rare to see children openly defying their teachers.
- A few workers have defied the majority decision and gone into work despite the strike.
- The fact that aircraft don't fall out of the sky always seems to me to defy (= act against) the law of gravity.
- A forest fire raging in southern California is defying (= is not changed by) all attempts to control it.
- The chaos at the airport defies description.
- I defy you to prove your accusations.
- I defy you to tell where I've painted over the scratch on my car.
1 to refuse to obey or to do something in the usual or expected way:
- They defied an evacuation order and stayed in town during the hurricane.
- He defied the odds (= did what no one expected) and won the race for mayor.

The mess in Bart's room defies description!
His remarkable recovery defied all medical augury.
In 1970 he defied the three-line whip against EC membership.
They defied convention by giving up their jobs and becoming self-sufficient.
Tom Cruise has performed his own stunts for Mission Impossible 2, defying warnings from professionals.
It is when a phenomenon defies understanding that it 'announces' itself, and stands out from the background, requiring interpretation.
Contemporary social scientists struggle with the problem of being precise about that which defies precision : the cloudiness of our own lives.
And, finally, there are those - the truly problematic cases - which defy exclusive classification.