Difference between Refuses and Defy

REFUSES vs DEFY: NOUN

To oppose or resist with boldness and assurance.
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 renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
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 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 challenge to contest or trial with arms; dare to meet in combat.
To revolt at; reject from dislike; disapprove.
To renounce; reject; refuse; repudiate; cast off.

Spurns, Rejects, Fails, Refusal, Turn away, Food waste, Pass up, Turn down, Decline, Scraps, Resist, Garbage, Defy, Deny, Reject

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

Rejecting, Rejected, Not, Denies, Shuns, Refusal, Turn away, Turn down, Decline, Scraps, Resist, Garbage, Defy, Deny, Reject

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

Witness must state why he refuses to testify.
She refuses to talk with Daughter on phone.
Comcast rep Josh refuses to activate the modem.
Stephan refuses these unwarranted displays of racial solidarity.
He then jumps up and refuses to continue.
Pursuing legal actions when client refuses to pay.
Mexico refuses to recognize the Annexation of Texas.
Refuses to identify himself or herself upon request.
If she now refuses to kill Bruno, can we say that she has made themorally correct decision simply because she refuses to kill?
What happens if the records custodian refuses to release public documents or refuses to allow a citizen to review public documents?

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.
Defy your wafer professional stupidly taking the apartheid.
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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