defend
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
- 2.
(transitive)To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
- 3.
(transitive)(transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
- 4.
(sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
- 5.
(cricket) Mostly in tests. The action of not putting force into hitting a shot, but to conserve energy and wear down bowlers so they can attack later.
The teams strategy was to defend but score runs as well for the first 20 overs.
- 6.
(sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous instance of that competition.
- 7.
(slang)(poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
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(obsolete, transitive)To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
- 9.
(obsolete, transitive)To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
- 10.
(intransitive, obsolete, transitive)To prohibit, forbid.
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ine-pro From Middle English defenden, from Old French defendre, deffendre (Modern défendre), from Latin dēfendō (to ward off), from Proto-Italic *fendō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-. Displaced native bewerian.