defy
/dɪˈfʌɪ/
US pronunciation
American sound/dɪˈfʌɪ/
dɪˈfʌɪ
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 2nd syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
dɪ - ˈfʌɪ -> defy
Myanmar meaning
(v) အာခံသည်။ ဖီဆန်သည်။ ) ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် ခုခံသည်။ ကြံ့ကြံ့ခံသည်။ တင်းခံသည်။ ပေခံသည်။ မ…နိုင်။ စိန်ခေါ်သည်။
Full entry
defy /dÇ'faÇ/ v (pt, pp defied )
၁။ (က) အာခံသည်။ ဖီဆန်သည်။
She defied her parents and got married ❍ defy the government /the law.
(ခ) ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် ခုခံသည်။ ကြံ့ကြံ့ခံသည်။ the garrison defied enemy attacks for several days.
၂။ တင်းခံသည်။ ပေခံသည်။ မ…နိုင်။
The door defied all attempts to open it. ❍ The problem seems to defy solution. ❍ a scene that defies description.
၃။ စိန်ခေါ်သည်။
I defy you to prove I have cheated.
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challenge, confront, disobey, rebel, resist, dare, flout, disregard, treat with contempt, baffle, beard, brave, brickbat, brickbats, casus belli, contemn, defeat, defiance, deride, despise, elude, enjoinder, face, factiousness, fly in face of, foil, front, frustrate, gibe, grabber, hang tough, hurl defiance at, ignore, impugnment, indocility, insult, intractability, intractableness, make my day, mock, oppose, outdare, provocation, provoke, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, repel, repulse, ridicule, scorn, slight, spurn, stick, stick fast, take one on, throwing of the gauntlet, thwart, venture, violate, wildness, withstand
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