vzepřít se — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
vzepřít se is used for these senses in English:
- defy (transitive) To refuse to obey.
balk — full definition
- noun An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- noun The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- noun Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- noun A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
defy — full definition
- verb To openly refuse to obey or comply with something.
- verb To resist or fail to conform to something, as if impossible to overcome.