different between defy vs bedare
defy
English
Etymology
From Old French desfier, from Vulgar Latin *disfidare (“renounce one's faith”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + fidus (“faithful”). Meaning shifted in the 14th century from "be disloyal" to "challenge". Contrast confide, fidelity, faith.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??fa?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Verb
defy (third-person singular simple present defies, present participle defying, simple past and past participle defied)
- (transitive) To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition).
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- I once again / Defie thee to the trial of mortal fight.
- 1900, Edith King Hall, Adventures in Toyland Chapter 6
- "So you actually think yours is good-looking?" sneered the Baker. "Why, I could make a better-looking one out of a piece of dough."
- "I defy you to," the Hansom-driver replied. "A face like mine is not easily copied. Nor am I the only person of that opinion. All the ladies think that I am beautiful. And of course I go by what they think."
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- (transitive) To refuse to obey.
- 2005, George W. Bush, Presidential Radio Address - 19 March 2005
- Before coalition forces arrived, Iraq was ruled by a dictatorship that murdered its own citizens, threatened its neighbors, and defied the world.
- 2005, George W. Bush, Presidential Radio Address - 19 March 2005
- To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations.
- 1955, Anonymous, The Urantia Book Paper 41
- By tossing this nineteenth electron back and forth between its own orbit and that of its lost companion more than twenty-five thousand times a second, a mutilated stone atom is able partially to defy gravity and thus successfully to ride the emerging streams of light and energy, the sunbeams, to liberty and adventure.
- 2013, Jeré Longman in the New York Times, W.N.B.A. Hopes Griner Can Change Perceptions, as Well as Game Itself
- “To be determined,” Kane said, “is whether Griner and her towering skill and engaging personality will defy the odds and attract corporate sponsors as part of widespread public acceptance four decades after passage of the gender-equity legislation known as Title IX.”
- 1955, Anonymous, The Urantia Book Paper 41
- (transitive, obsolete) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
- 1603-1625, Beaumont and Fletcher
- For thee I have defied my constant mistress.
- 1603-1625, Beaumont and Fletcher
Derived terms
- death-defying
Related terms
- defiance
- defiant
Translations
Noun
defy (plural defies)
- (obsolete) A challenge.
- And, safe intrench'd within, her foes without defies
Translations
Anagrams
- yfed
defy From the web:
- what defy means
- what defy gravity
- what defies the laws of physics
- what defines mean
- what defines a sport
- what defines a man
- what defied your expectations for this project
- what defies logic
bedare
English
Etymology
From be- +? dare.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Verb
bedare (third-person singular simple present bedares, present participle bedaring, simple past and past participle bedared or bedurst)
- (transitive) To defy.
- 1829, George Peele, Alexander Dyce, The Works of George Peele:
- Lets fall the fowl, and is emboldened / With eyes intentive to bedare the sun, […]
- 1829, George Peele, Alexander Dyce, The Works of George Peele:
Anagrams
- abreed, bardee, beader, bearde, beared, bedear, beread, breade
Danish
From Middle Low German bed?ren (“to fool”), derived from d?re (“fool”), from Proto-Germanic *dauzô. Compare German betören (“to bewitch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [b?e?d????]
Verb
bedare (imperative bedår, infinitive at bedåre, present tense bedårer, past tense bedårede, perfect tense har bedåret)
- to charm, captivate
- (archaic) to fool
Dutch
Verb
bedare
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of bedaren
bedare From the web:
you may also like
- defy vs bedare
- forhard vs forrard
- forhard vs forward
- perish vs forfare
- destroy vs forfare
- ruin vs forfare
- terms vs outtalk
- outwit vs outtalk
- talking vs outtalk
- surpass vs outtalk
- outdo vs outtalk
- overpower vs outtalk
- tweeted vs tweeded
- sweeter vs fresher
- sweeter vs coat
- sweeter vs sweete
- sweeter vs sweeten
- sweeper vs sweeter
- sweeter vs skeeter
- swelter vs sweeter