Defying Synonyms and Antonyms

To call on another to do something requiring boldness
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. daring
  2. challenging
Challenge
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. resisting
  2. daring
  3. opposing
  4. fronting
  5. flouting
  6. facing
  7. challenging
  8. scoffing
  9. refusing
  10. spurning
  11. scorning
  12. braving
  13. mocking
  14. jeering
  15. ignoring
  16. frustrating
  17. bearding
Antonyms:
  1. obeying
  2. surrendering
  3. yielding
To refuse or fail to obey
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. disobeying
  2. violating
  3. transgressing
  4. flouting
  5. breaking
Resist or confront with resistance
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. holding
  2. withstanding

Defying Sentence Examples

  • She lifted her chin, defying him to lash out at her again.

  • She tore her gaze away and twisted her head, yielding yet defying him as well.

  • A tear rolled down her cheek and made a death defying leap to her coat.

  • So early as the beginning of July, Austrian officers, with the permission of the minister of war, had joined the Serb insurgents who, under Stratemirovic, were defying the Magyar power in the banat.

  • The main reason he's famous is because of his death defying walks between the windmill sails, while they are turning.

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