Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with defy in American Collocation
defy
verb
transitive
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
US
/dɪˈfaɪ/
openly or deliberately
blatantly
deliberately
openly
publicly
Workers in several unions openly defied their leaders by taking strike action.
repeatedly
continually
repeatedly
He argued that mothers who repeatedly defied court rulings on access should be jailed.
successfully
successfully
People began to believe that unjust laws could be successfully defied.
belief
categorization
classification
comprehension
definition
description
expectation
explanation
imagination
logic
Their claims defy belief.