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Originally Posted by JamesB
de·fy
/dəˈfī/
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verb
gerund or present participle: defying
openly resist or refuse to obey.
"a woman who defies convention"
(of a thing) make (an action or quality) almost impossible.
"his actions defy belief"
One more time. The governor controls health issues as they are a state responsibility. The governor had lifted restrictions on public gatherings. Some health experts had suggested it was a bad idea. Trump and the governor disagreed. He was not defying he was ignoring.
Also if you look at the links I posted above you can also see that not all public health officials are against all gatherings. If they had been a little more consistent in their advice perhaps both Trump and the governor would have taken the advice.
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Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense defies , present participle defying , past tense, past participle
defied. 1. verb. If you defy someone or something that is trying to make you behave in a particular way, you refuse to obey them and behave in that way.
Sporty's post was just fine. Using
Defied in his sentence the way he did, to describe actions in the past tense is 100% correct.
Also, since you asked him to "learn how to pronounce", you should be aware that "pronouncing", or, "mispronouncing" something that's written isn't possible is it? (he's not speaking, he is writing, right?)
In the case of Trump either defying or ignoring what the health experts said is really one and the same, isn't it? Does it even matter, or was Sporty's post clear - it was to the rest of us and he has every right to his opinion.