verb
ADVERB
▪ openly
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Journalists were openly ~ing the authorities.
VERB + DEFY
▪ be prepared to ( esp. BrE ), be willing to
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He is willing to ~ his own party.
▪ continue to
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The protesters continued to ~ a court injunction.
Defy is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ authority , ↑ ban , ↑ belief , ↑ classification , ↑ comprehension , ↑ convention , ↑ curfew , ↑ death , ↑ description , ↑ expectation , ↑ explanation , ↑ gravity , ↑ imagination , ↑ interpretation , ↑ logic , ↑ odds , ↑ preconception , ↑ prediction , ↑ reason , ↑ sceptic , ↑ stereotype , ↑ tradition