- to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: Love drives the characters to ignore their family feud and defy parental authority.The artist defies conventional categories by blending very different styles in her work.
- to offer effective resistance to; make virtually impossible: Their strategic position is helped by having a fort that defies attack.The facts were so complex that they defied simple explanation.
- to challenge (a person) to do something deemed impossible: They defied him to dive off the bridge.
- to challenge to a combat or contest.
- a challenge; a defiance.
- to resist (a powerful person, authority, etc) openly and boldly
- to elude, esp in a baffling way
- to challenge or provoke (someone to do something judged to be impossible); dare
- to invite to do battle or combat
