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What does defied mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of defy
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Lord Morley appears to have risen to repeat the accusation against Salisbury and the latter to have defied him to prove it by wager of battle.
The next day thousands of workers defied armed police and blockaded a major toll road into the provincial capital.
He defied the Chinese Communist government and spent almost 18 years in the laogai or Chinese gulag.
He reads the game well, attacked with purpose and put many of his senior teammates to shame with a display which defied his years.
Slowly, its lower jaw dropped until its mouth was an impossible maw, a gaping hole that defied definition.
Soon I had amassed a large record collection while, simultaneously, building up a vaseline-walled quiff which defied gravity.

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