Thesaurus / defies
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synonyms for defies
- confront
- disregard
- elude
- flout
- ignore
- mock
- oppose
- provoke
- resist
- ridicule
- spurn
- thwart
- violate
- withstand
- baffle
- beard
- brave
- contemn
- dare
- defeat
- deride
- despise
- face
- foil
- front
- gibe
- insult
- repel
- repulse
- scorn
- slight
- stick
- venture
- fly in face of
- hang tough
- hurl defiance at
- make my day
- outdare
- stick fast
- take one on
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Their picturesque pronunciation gives their conversation a piquancy which defies imitation.
FRIEND MAC DONALDMAX O'RELLThe women were dressed in a variety both of shape and colour, which defies all description.
TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND THE INTERIOR OF PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808LT-COL. PINKNEYThe remark is truer of commerce, which is a law to p. 256itself, and which defies Acts of Parliament and royal patronage.
EAST ANGLIAJ. EWING RITCHIESex, like all complicated phenomena, defies being crowded into a simple definition.
TABOO AND GENETICSMELVIN MOSES KNIGHT, IVA LOWTHER PETERS, AND PHYLLIS MARY BLANCHARDHe appended a theory, which has its germ of truth, but defies definition, and is easily twisted to save a special argument.
THE LIFE OF MAZZINIBOLTON KINGIt is his first duty to deliver his message with a plainness that defies misunderstanding.
EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANSJAMES DENNEYThat means not only an escape from laziness and apathy, but eagerness is the only thing in the world that defies fatigue.
BILL'S SCHOOL AND MINEWILLIAM SUDDARDS FRANKLINI never saw any one who so well defies the power of time and vice to disfigure.
COURT BEAUTIES OF OLD WHITEHALLW. R. H. TROWBRIDGEA girl who loves one man purely has about her an amulet which defies the advances of the profligate.
NIGHT AND MORNING, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTONIn this bag the Nascopi thrusts his legs, draws his knees up to his chin, and defies both wind and snow.
THE ETHNOLOGY OF THE BRITISH COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIESROBERT GORDON LATHAM