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DEFY

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defy verb tranzitiv

1. a desfide; a provoca (la discuţie, întrecere, război);

I defy you to do it te desfid să faci asta, mă prind că n-ai să faci asta, fă-o dacă te încumeţi; să te văd, o faci?

2. a sfida, a înfrunta, a nesocoti, a nu lua în seamă;

to defy the law a nesocoti legea;

to defy public opinion a sfida opinia publică.

3. (fig.) a nu se supune (cu dat.), a depăşi, a întrece;

it defies description întrece orice descriere.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

As to Charley's legs, if they were only a pair (which they ain't), they'd defy competition.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He had to ignore the urges and promptings of instinct and reason, defy experience, give the lie to life itself.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Consider that eye: consider the resolute, wild, free thing looking out of it, defying me, with more than courage—with a stern triumph.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

No, no; I feel he may defy us there.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Though decidedly shaken by the fall from the tower upon him, Roderigo defied the old gentleman and refused to stir.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

She generally thought he would come, because she generally thought he ought; but it was a case which she could not so shape into any positive act of duty or discretion, as inevitably to defy the suggestions of very opposite feelings.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

For man's opinion—I defy it.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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