Difference between Defy and Resist

DEFY vs RESIST: NOUN

Something that resists or prevents a certain action
A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers; -- also called reserve. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes.
A stopping-out; also, the material used for stopping out.
Specifically, in calico-printing, a sort of paste applied to a fabric to prevent color or mordant from fixing on those parts not intended to be colored, either by acting mechanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers. Also called resist-paste, resistant, and reserve.
Any composition applied to a surface to protect it from chemical action, as to enable it to resist the corrosion of acids, etc.
A substance that can cover and protect a surface, as from corrosion.

To refuse to submit to or cooperate with.
To be beyond the application or scope of; be contrary or resistant to.
To challenge or dare (someone) to do something.
To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt
To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
To oppose or resist with boldness and assurance.

To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
To be distasteful to.

To challenge to contest or trial with arms; dare to meet in combat.
To renounce; reject; refuse; repudiate; cast off.
To revolt at; reject from dislike; disapprove.
To digest; be digested.
To digest.
To reject; eject; void: with out.
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 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 be disagreeable or distasteful to; offend.
Synonyms Withstand, etc. See oppose.
To make opposition; act in opposition.
To withstand; oppose passively or actively; antagonize; act against; exert physical or moral force in opposition to.

Defiant, Shirk, Oppose, Evade, Confront, Disregard, Deny, Ignore, Flout, Hold up, Withstand, Hold, Dare, Refuse, Resist

Counteract, Thwart, Reject, Repel, Jib, Dissent, Hold out, Protest, Stand firm, Balk, Stand, Refuse, Baulk, Withstand, Defy

Break, Despise, Defiant, Oppose, Evade, Confront, Disregard, Deny, Ignore, Flout, Hold up, Hold, Dare, Refuse, Resist

Prevent, Confront, Deny, Avoid, Counteract, Thwart, Reject, Repel, Jib, Dissent, Protest, Stand firm, Stand, Refuse, Defy

IR and IRT in Asia, defy easy answers.
Supernatural events may defy all forms of explanation.
Youngstown, Sensible Norwood, and Flak defy practical workability.
SYN: Defy, summon, dare, question, investigate, brave, canvass.
Sometimes, water law seems to defy common sense.
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They defy common sense, she argued, but more importantly they defy the wishes of the majority of ordinary citizens of Europe.
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These songs gave progressives the strength to resist.
This guard will resist corrosion even if scratched.
Nor couldhe resist another opportunity to close philosophically.
And the futility of trying to resist either.
Judges are likely to resist surrendering their discretion.
Flash Freeze because in most cases the same enemies that resist the freeze will also resist the slow from Absolute Zero.
Nor is the fact that the victim does not resist gynecological examinations probative of whether she could resist if she wanted to do so.
That she could have done more to resist, and therefore did not resist to the utmost, was beside the point.
They expect others to resist as well, because they themselves were inclined to resist.
Used to the world of illusion in the cave, the prisoners at first resist enlightenment, as students resist education.