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- to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority
- to offer effective resistance to: a fort that defies attack
- to challenge (a person) to do something deemed impossible: They defied him to dive off the bridge.
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- to challenge to do something considered impossible; dare [Taisha]
- resist openly [Nandigam]
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