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defied
[ dih-fahyd ]
adjective
- challenged or resisted boldly or openly; rebelled against:
Both novels end with a degree of reconciliation and acceptance between the defied parent and the wayward child.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of defy.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of defied1
Example Sentences
If the teen dished out a beating to a misbehaving kid — someone who cursed at officers or defied their orders — he would be rewarded with In-N-Out, Jack in the Box, McDonald’s or Chick-fil-A.
The planes landed at their destination in El Salvador, and the judge has been tussling with the president’s lawyers about whether they defied his order.
Chanting "rights, law, justice", people of all ages defied a government ban on gatherings to protest against what they see as an unlawful detention.
The witch hunt quickly became more about punishing anyone who defied the bully pulpit than with tracking down actual Communist Party members.
When Kelsey Barnard Clark won the sixteenth season of "Top Chef," set in Kentucky, she clinched victory with a dish that defied fine dining expectations: cornbread and buttermilk with crawfish, boiled peanuts, cucumber and watermelon.
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