| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | challenge |
| Synonyms: | accost, affront, beard, brave, call one's bluff, come up against, dare, defy, encounter, face down, face up to, face with, flout, front, go one-on-one, go up against, make my day, meet, meet eyeball-to-eyeball, oppose, repel, resist, scorn, stand up to, tell off, withstand |
| Antonyms: | back down |
| Main Entry: | defy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | challenge, frustrate |
| Synonyms: | baffle, beard, brave, confront, contemn, dare, defeat, deride, despise, disregard, elude, face, flout, fly in face of, foil, front, gibe, hang tough, hurl defiance at, ignore, insult, make my day, mock, oppose, outdare, provoke, repel, repulse, resist, ridicule, scorn, slight, spurn, stick fast, stick*, take one on, thwart, venture, violate, withstand |
| Antonyms: | give in, obey, surrender, yield |