noun.
A challenge; a defiance.
To renounce; reject; refuse; repudiate; cast off.
To revolt at; reject from dislike; disapprove.
To challenge to contest or trial with arms; dare to meet in combat.
To challenge to an action or procedure of any kind; dare to do something (generally with an implication of belief that it cannot be done, or that the action will fail of its purpose).
To dare; brave; manifest a contempt of or indifference to (opposition, attack, or hostile force); set at naught; resist successfully: as, to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy the power of a magistrate.
To reject; eject; void: with out.
To digest.
To digest; be digested.