Crossword-Solution: DEFY 4 letters, 109 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Defy	v. t.	To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
Defy	v. t.	To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion.
Defy	n.	A challenge.

We have 109 clues for the answer “DEFY”

Clue	Answers
Boldly resist	1 answer
Bravely resist	1 answer
Buck, as odds	1 answer
CHALLENGE to combat (arch.)	1 answer
Challenge openly	1 answer
Challenge, as authority	1 answer
Chip-on-the-shoulder word	1 answer
Don't obey	1 answer
Flout, as authority	1 answer
Go against the wishes of	1 answer
Go against, as a treaty	1 answer
Go against, as expectations	1 answer
Go against, as gravity	1 answer
Go against, as someone's will	1 answer
Not go along with	1 answer
Openly challenge	1 answer
Openly resist	1 answer
Oppose openly	1 answer
Put up resistance to	1 answer
Refuse to obey	1 answer
Resist boldly	1 answer
Resist openly	1 answer
Resist with boldness	1 answer
Resist, as authority	1 answer
Resist, as orders	1 answer
Resist, like gravity	1 answer
Stare down, say	1 answer
Swim upstream, in a sense	1 answer
The new material withstands even the greatest wear and tear	1 answer
Oppose boldly	2 answers
Really resist	2 answers
Act with boldness	2 answers
Throw down the glove	2 answers
Act against	2 answers
Challenge the system	2 answers
Openly oppose	2 answers
Rise up against	2 answers
Show fight	2 answers
outface	3 answers
Rebel against	3 answers
Throw down the gauntlet	3 answers
FLY in the face of	3 answers
Fail to follow	3 answers
Oppose authority	3 answers
Stand up against	3 answers
Meet head-on	4 answers
I dare you	4 answers
Refuses to obey	5 answers
decve	5 answers
Stand up to	6 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEREA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with DEFY (5)

Sometimes throughout a whole season all the swarms would alight on the lowest attainable bough—such as part of a currant-bush or espalier apple-tree; next year they would, with just the same unanimity, make straight off to the uppermost member of some tall, gaunt costard, or quarrington, and there defy all invaders who did not come armed with ladders and staves to take them.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

The 1,000 scanned volumes provided an array of image-capture challenges that are common to nineteenth-century printing techniques and embrittled material, and that defy the use of text-conversion processes.

LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993

Many more died before we perfected our powers, but at last we were able to defy death when we fully understood that death was merely a state of mind.

Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

CHAPTER VIII At this the challenger with fierce defy His trumpet sounds; the challenged makes reply: With clangour rings the field, resounds the vaulted sky.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

The President rang his bell; but, The Vengeance, warming with encouragement, shrieked, “I defy that bell!” wherein she was likewise much commended.

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994

Quotes with DEFY (3)

My belief is that, morally, God and Satan are vaguely on the same page. According to the common understanding of Satan's origins, holiness must be in his blood: but a corrupted formula. The vital difference is that God is willing to offer grace for our sins; he delights in grace. God is the one and only holy and just punisher of sin, yes, but that is partly so because punishment for the sake of punishment is not something he loves. Whereas Satan, as the accuser, and as it is …

Criss Jami Healology

Please don't be overly sober with your precious wings, it's your addiction to freedom that makes me think that i too can defy gravity.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

David, you’re my true love, why did we wait so long to get together? I don’t care what the world says. Let’s defy them all, my darling.- Maddy

Hailey Abbott The Other Boy

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 149 times in crossword archives (1970–2025).