Definition of "defying" []

• Present participle of defy. (verb)

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• "Uzi Arad, senior advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Monday that he believes the situation with Iran may escalate; Tehran may have to pay a heavy price for what he called defying the world."
• "He has hit on his own, jogged on his own, lifted weights on his own—all in the name of defying what his body seems to be telling him."
• "Literature can't be relevant to civic responsibility and reform agendas except in defying them."