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defyingverbpresent participle of defy to go against the commands, prohibitions, or rules ofin those days a woman was brave if she defied fashion and wore white after Labor Day disobeying, mocking, rebelling (against) disobligingmutinying (against), revolting (against)disregarding, ignoring, overlooking, overpassing, passing over, tuning outbrushing (off), dismissing, flouting, pooh-poohing(also poohing), rejecting, scoffing (at), scorning, shrugging off, winking (at)breaching, breaking, infringing, transgressing, violatingbucking, combating(or combatting), contesting, disputing, fighting, opposing, resisting, withstanding complying (with), conforming (to), following, minding, obeying capitulating (to), conceding (to), deferring (to), goose-stepping (to), serving, stooping (to), submitting (to), surrendering (to), yielding (to)cooperating (with)keeping, observingacceding (to), acquiescing (to), agreeing (to), assenting (to), obligingattending, hearing, heeding, listening (to), marking, noticing, noting, regarding, watching to invite (someone) to take part in a contest or to perform a featafter missing the target, she defied her boyfriend to do better challenging, daring, stumping bearding, braving, brazening, breasting, confronting, facing, outbraving, outfacing to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or couragea rescue team willing to defy the raging storm bearding, braving, brazening, breasting, confronting, daring, facing, outbraving, outfacing facing up (to), frontingaffrontingchallengingencountering, meetingaccosting, approaching, corneringrepelling, resisting, standing, withstandingbattling, combating(or combatting), contending (with), fighting, opposing, squaring (off) standing up to dodging, ducking, funking, shirking, sidestepping avoiding, eschewing, shunningeluding, escaping, evading, shaking to refuse to give in toa bicyclist who regularly defies illness and infirmity in order to compete in races bucking, fighting, opposing, repelling, resisting, withstanding battling, combating(or combatting), contending (with)challenging, contesting, contradicting, disputingbaffling, balking, foiling, frustrating, thwartingchecking, countering, hindering, obstructing, stemming bowing (to), capitulating (to), giving in (to), knuckling under (to), stooping (to), submitting (to), succumbing (to), surrendering (to), yielding (to) |