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het hoofd bieden — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • defy verb To openly refuse to obey or comply with something.

Senses

het hoofd bieden is used for these senses in English:

  • defy (transitive, obsolete) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.

defy — full definition

  1. verb To openly refuse to obey or comply with something.
  2. verb To resist or fail to conform to something, as if impossible to overcome.

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