defend

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verb
V_es/s
defends
V_ing/Gerund
defending
V_ed/pp
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  1. 1.

    (transitive)To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.

  2. 2.

    (transitive)To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.

  3. 3.

    (transitive)(transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).

  4. 4.

    (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.

  5. 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. 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. 7.

    (slang)(poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.

  8. 8.

    (obsolete, transitive)To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).

  9. 9.

    (obsolete, transitive)To prevent, to keep (from doing something).

  10. 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.

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