All defied synonyms
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D d verb defied
- challenged — If you say that someone is challenged in a particular way, you mean that they have a disability in that area. Challenged is often combined with inappropriate words for humorous effect.
- confronted — Simple past tense and past participle of confront.
- rebelled — a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.
- resisted — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
- dared — an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
- disregarded — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- frustrated — Obsolete. frustrated.
- ignored — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- mocked — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- opposed — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- provoked — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- ridiculed — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- spurned — to reject with disdain; scorn.
- violated — to break, infringe, or transgress (a law, rule, agreement, promise, instructions, etc.).
- withstood — to stand or hold out against; resist or oppose, especially successfully: to withstand rust; to withstand the invaders; to withstand temptation.
- baffled — lacking in understanding
- bearded — A bearded man has a beard.
- braved — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- contemned — to treat or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt.
- defeated — having suffered defeat; beaten
- faced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
- foiled — ornamented with foils, as a gable, spandrel, or balustrade.
- insulted — to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
- repelled — to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- scorned — open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
- slighted — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- ventured — an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one: a mountain-climbing venture.