To defy or challenge someone

To challenge someone.

Alternative form of dead against.

(idiomatic) To continue to hope, even when what is hoped for seems unlikely or impossible.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of run up against

present participle of run up against

simple past tense of run up against

Trapped, cornered; discommoded, discomfited; in a quandary.

(law) Any of various sexual deviations that, at one time or another, have been considered to be so unnatural as to be illegal.

(law, singular only) The rule that prevents a testator or other transferor of property from controlling further transfer of his property more than twenty-one years after the death of anyone alive at the time of the original transfer who may have some interest in the transfer.