(v. t.) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
(v. t.) To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion.
(n.) A challenge.
Example Sentences:
(1) For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues.
(2) "We have Revolutionary Guards who defied orders, though they were severely punished, expelled from the force and taken to prison," he says.
(3) He said his party was determined to go ahead with the poll, even if it meant defying Spain's constitutional court, which Rull dismissed as biased.
(4) When several of its semi-autonomous cars were caught running red lights, the state ordered their removal from the road – an order Uber openly defied , blaming the traffic light violations on “human error” and suspending the people monitoring the cars.
(5) Speaker Paul Ryan and majority leader Kevin McCarthy, the two top House Republicans, had argued in Monday’s meeting – held with no prior notice – against making the unilateral ethics change, calling for a bipartisan approach at a later date, but rank-and-file Republicans defied their leadership.
(6) Heidi Allen, the Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire, abstained in last week’s vote but said she and others would defy the party whip if concessions were not offered.
(7) Barack Obama has defied a Republican Congress to move ahead on his climate agenda on Wednesday, cracking down on methane emissions from America’s oil and natural gas boom.
(8) The home secretary, Theresa May , has defied her own expert advisers and banned qat, a mild herbal stimulant that is traditionally used by Britain's Somali, Yemeni and Ethiopian communities.
(9) No call for the resurrection of the proud, shared traditions of Scots, Welsh and English people as they defied the powerful to build a better society; no convincing pledge that a new Britain would be forged, just and equal and fair unlike what New Labour failed to deliver.
(10) Some samples with complex patterns defied classification, and it is speculated that these may be from persons with duplicated C7 genes.
(11) Sales on the high street were much higher than expected this month, rising at their fastest rate in six years as consumers defied the gloomy economic outlook.
(12) But the instruction issued by the party headquarters in Paris was defied by the Socialist candidate in the Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine region, who came third but announced he would stand for the second round anyway.
(13) This was the childhood playground of actor Richard Harris, where he performed death-defying handstands and cycling tricks on the cliffside walls when not showboating by the sea.
(14) Just as no single description is universally applicable to the mode of action of vitamin A derivatives, so too do their toxic effects defy generalization.
(15) He has been held without charges since his arrest on 5 June but has been informed that under martial law he faces up to 14 years in prison on possible charges of inciting unrest, violating cyber laws and defying the junta's orders.
(16) Writers should be making more of an effort to write interesting parts for actors of colour that defy stereotypes, or implementing a Geena Davis type solution (simply change any character in a script into a woman) for race.
(17) It defies the logic of personal ambition that grows stronger with proximity to the biggest job in the world.
(18) It was so I could tell Jeremy that I had backed him.” Corbyn has defied not only Fletcher’s expectations but everyone else’s.
(19) But, since then, it has fallen to around $1,660 (£1,047) defying predictions – and the hopes of speculators – that it would continue to hit new peaks during the ongoing financial turmoil.
(20) For the last five months, he has enjoyed unprecedented political dominance, after an election where the SNP defied the logic of Holyrood's semi-proportional system by winning an absolute majority, sweeping into power with nearly 50% of the vote.
Dewy
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist with, dew.
(a.) Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew.
(a.) Resembling a dew-covered surface; appearing as if covered with dew.
Example Sentences:
(1) When you hear the name Jesus, is the first image that comes to mind a dewy-eyed pretty boy with flowing locks?
(2) Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti’s photographs of tax havens will be exhibited at the Arles photography festival from 6 July to 20 September, and published in a book, The Heavens: Annual Report, by Dewi Lewis Media on 3 August, priced at £39.
(3) "Oh my gosh," she says, in her rich, dewy Kentucky accent, and holds out a perfectly manicured hand.
(4) Birrell seeks to paint opponents of privatisation as dewy-eyed nostalgists.
(5) This is a house we’ll be able to grow into,” the case study quotes Matthew as saying, presumably as he gazes, dewy-eyed, at a light fitting or something.
(6) Only the most dewy-eyed optimists would claim that all is well, though some like Con Coughlin of the Telegraph do.
(7) In a review of more than 3000 cancer patients, DeWys and colleagues identified significantly improved survival in those patients without weight loss compared with those had lost 6% of their body weight (Am J Med 69:491-497, 1980).
(8) It is wrong (and pointless) to be dewy-eyed about the old industrial era, with its dirty and back-breaking jobs and its exclusion of women.
(9) They had longed for this day, and after all the emotion at the start, the dewy-eyed speech from Claudio Ranieri and the guard of honour that ushered his team on to the pitch, their heroes quickly set about showing everyone why they now go by the title of champions of England .
(10) Down at the Indy , a dewy-eyed Christina Patterson found Labour's young men floundering against a chap who "looks like a prime minister, sounds like a prime minister and acts like a prime minister".
(11) Vinny says, becoming breathless and dewy-eyed as he describes the roar of an audience's laughter and the backstage ambience where the groupies stood in a queue.
(12) The last mentioned features are strongly effective also in aride regions, with the well known fluctations of high parching and dewiness.
(13) Why did we have to have Little Red Riding Hood?’’ But that is about as dewy-eyed as he gets.
(14) The yes surge is not being driven by blood-and-soil nationalism, by dewy-eyed Celtic nostalgia or the resurrection of a Braveheart spirit.
(15) • Guantánamo: If The Light Goes Out, by Edmund Clark, Julian Stallabrass and Omar Deghayes, is published by Dewi Lewis Publishing at £35.
(16) If you talk to people of a certain age, they will tell you, dewy eyed, about being huddled over a retro computer such as a Sinclair Spectrum or Commodore C64 plugged into a portable TV, playing games which by today’s modern standards are very simple, often very silly, but had a fun factor never seen before till that point in time.” Revival of the Spectrum brand will boost the profile of the 74-year-old Sinclair, who launched his first mass-market consumer product in 1962.
(17) STAY in Old Post Office Cottage or Ivy Cottage (£180 for two) in the grounds, or at the restaurant's own Angel Hotel, (01873 857121, angelabergavenny.com , doubles from £101) Y Polyn, Capel Dewi, Carmarthernshire Photograph: Alamy From the statement on their website – "Fat equals flavour.
(18) Results of prospective and long-term investigations will help to define subsets of stage I patients for whom RLND may be unnecessary (DeWys et al.
(19) · Degrees by Andy Gotts is published by Dewi Lewis Media on October 6.
(20) 100 Leading Ladies is published by Dewi Lewis Media on 2 October at £30.