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"word": "death-defying"
}
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"etymology_text": "From Old French desfier, from Vulgar Latin *disfidare (“renounce one's faith”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + fidus (“faithful”). Meaning shifted in the 14th century from \"be disloyal\" to \"challenge\". Contrast confide, fidelity, faith.",
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"text": "to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion",
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"ref": "1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes",
"text": "I once again / Defie thee to the trial of mortal fight.",
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{
"ref": "1900, Edith King Hall, Adventures in Toyland Chapter 6",
"text": "\"So you actually think yours is good-looking?\" sneered the Baker. \"Why, I could make a better-looking one out of a piece of dough.\"\n\"I defy you to,\" the Hansom-driver replied. \"A face like mine is not easily copied. Nor am I the only person of that opinion. All the ladies think that I am beautiful. And of course I go by what they think.\"",
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"To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition)."
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"(transitive) To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition)."
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"roman": "predizvikvam",
"sense": "to challenge (someone)",
"word": "предизвиквам"
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"sense": "to challenge (someone)",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to challenge (someone)",
"word": "herausfordern"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to challenge (someone)",
"word": "die Stirn bieten"
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"sense": "to challenge (someone)",
"word": "entgegentreten"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to challenge (someone)",
"word": "tabhair dúshlán"
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"_dis1": "84 6 2 8",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to challenge (someone)",
"word": "sfidare"
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"_dis1": "84 6 2 8",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to challenge (someone)",
"word": "whakatōrea"
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"_dis1": "84 6 2 8",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to challenge (someone)",
"word": "wananga"
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"code": "no",
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"sense": "to challenge (someone)",
"word": "trosse"
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"sense": "to challenge (someone)",
"word": "utfordre"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to challenge (someone)",
"word": "desafiar"
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"sense": "to challenge (someone)",
"word": "desafiar"
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to challenge (someone)",
"word": "meydan okumak"
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"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
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"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
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"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "uitdagen"
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"_dis1": "52 20 13 16",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "het hoofd bieden"
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"_dis1": "52 20 13 16",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "haastaa"
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{
"_dis1": "52 20 13 16",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "uhmata"
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"_dis1": "52 20 13 16",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "défier"
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"_dis1": "52 20 13 16",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "herausfordern"
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"_dis1": "52 20 13 16",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "sfidare"
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"_dis1": "52 20 13 16",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "berbekanî kirdin",
"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "بەربەکانی کردن"
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"_dis1": "52 20 13 16",
"code": "ckb",
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"roman": "berberekanê kirdin",
"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "بەربەرەکانێ کردن"
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"_dis1": "52 20 13 16",
"code": "mg",
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"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "mandrangitra"
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"_dis1": "52 20 13 16",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "whakatumatuma"
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"_dis1": "52 20 13 16",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "desafiar"
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"_dis1": "52 20 13 16",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "sfida"
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"_dis1": "52 20 13 16",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "brosátʹ výzov",
"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "броса́ть вы́зов"
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"_dis1": "52 20 13 16",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to provoke to combat or strife",
"word": "desafiar"
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"text": "If you defy your teacher you may end up in detention.",
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"ref": "2005, George W. Bush, Presidential Radio Address - 19 March 2005",
"text": "Before coalition forces arrived, Iraq was ruled by a dictatorship that murdered its own citizens, threatened its neighbors, and defied the world.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848",
"text": "British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.",
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"To refuse to obey."
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"(transitive) To refuse to obey."
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"sense": "to refuse to obey",
"word": "trodse"
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"_dis1": "2 83 5 11",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to refuse to obey",
"word": "désobéir à"
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"_dis1": "2 83 5 11",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to refuse to obey",
"word": "trotzen"
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"word": "querstellen"
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"lang": "Malagasy",
"sense": "to refuse to obey",
"word": "mandà"
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"_dis1": "2 83 5 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to refuse to obey",
"word": "takahi"
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"_dis1": "2 83 5 11",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to refuse to obey",
"word": "motsi"
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"_dis1": "2 83 5 11",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to refuse to obey",
"word": "desobedecer"
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"sense": "to refuse to obey",
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"_dis1": "2 83 5 11",
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"sense": "to refuse to obey",
"word": "trotsa"
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"ref": "1955, anonymous author, The Urantia Book, Paper 41",
"text": "By tossing this nineteenth electron back and forth between its own orbit and that of its lost companion more than twenty-five thousand times a second, a mutilated stone atom is able partially to defy gravity and thus successfully to ride the emerging streams of light and energy, the sunbeams, to liberty and adventure.",
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"ref": "2013, Jeré Longman, “W.N.B.A. Hopes Griner Can Change Perceptions, as Well as Game Itself”, in New York Times",
"text": "“To be determined,” Kane said, “is whether Griner and her towering skill and engaging personality will defy the odds and attract corporate sponsors as part of widespread public acceptance four decades after passage of the gender-equity legislation known as Title IX.”",
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"text": "1603-1625, Beaumont and Fletcher\nFor thee I have defied my constant mistress."
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"To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce."
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"roman": "ignoriram",
"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
"word": "игнорирам"
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"roman": "prenebregvam",
"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
"word": "пренебрегвам"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kàngjù",
"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
"word": "抗拒"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
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"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
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"word": "vzdát se"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
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"word": "trodse"
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"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
"word": "lade hånt om"
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"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
"word": "afzweren"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
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"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
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"word": "lossagen"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
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"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
"word": "abschwören"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
"word": "abiurare"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "'asî bûn",
"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
"word": "عاسی بوون"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "le qsederçûn",
"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
"word": "لە قسەدەرچوون"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
"word": "avsverge"
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"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
"word": "avvise"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
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"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
"word": "سرپیچی"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
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"word": "نافرمانی"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
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"word": "سر باز زدن"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
"code": "pt",
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"word": "renunciar"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
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"word": "пренебрега́ть"
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
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"_dis1": "4 5 1 90",
"code": "th",
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"roman": "dtɔ̀ɔ-dtâan",
"sense": "to renounce or dissolve all bonds",
"word": "ต่อต้าน"
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