Verb:

उपद्रव उत्पन्न करना, तुच्छ जानना, अनादर करना, ललकारना, चुनौती देना, उपेक्षा करना, अवहेलना करना,

defies's Usage Examples:

The enigma therefore still defies solution.

Thousands of square miles in Lower Bengal annually receive a top-dressing of virgin soil from the Himalayas, - a system of natural manuring which renders elaborate tillage a waste of labour, and defies the utmost power of over-cropping to exhaust its fertility.

Along this line of speculation we have a logic which claims that whatsoever is in one plane or at one stage in the development of thought a residuum that apparently defies analysis must at another stage and on a higher plane be shown so to be absorbed as to fall altogether within thought.

This not only defies the logic of what we are taught about spirits in Church, it defies common sense.

His son records the way in which he spent the night before the battle of Muret with a crudity of language which defies translation, and tells us that his father was too exhausted in the morning to stand at Mass, and had to be lifted into the saddle by his squires.

Sterne's character defies analysis in brief space.

It is cut in the volcanic plateau, and its ragged broken walls, which are inclined at very steep angles, are of a richness of colouring that almost defies description, a colouring that is produced by the action of the thermal springs, at the base of the canyon, upon the mineral pigments in the lava.

When the latter is lost during flight, the rapidity of their movement defies pursuit.

The first thing noticeable about him is that he defies all customary and mechanical classification.

Alex defies father now, but he will not win.

Synonyms:

hold, hold out, stand firm, brave out, hold up, brave, endure, weather, resist, withstand,

Antonyms:

enjoy, forbid, disallow, leeward, surrender,