Word Finder - defend

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To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.

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

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

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

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To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.

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To call a raise from the big blind.

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

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To prevent, to keep (from doing something).

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To prohibit, forbid.

I don't have to defend myself against Alex.

I can defend you against anything that attacks us.

Why should I not defend myself?

Pierre will defend you well.

This wasn't his friend and he wasn't going to defend or reprimand him.

But I am making a case I believe I can defend and will begin by defining my terms.

Up! up! and defend yourselves!

And yet, he had to find a way to defend her…their kingdom before he could deal with its runaway queen.

No. But if I were trying to defend my honor, you'd be the one I would choose to take up there.

In his philosophy he was mainly concerned to defend Christianity against modern Positivism.

You defend him because you work for him and you're a loyal employee, but I'll bet you've wondered why he's so unresponsive.

She didn't doubt Taran's ability to defend her kingdom - -if he ever got the chance.

I'm not going to even try to defend what you just saw, but I never cheated on you.

But, if an Immortal or human or deity corners you, and you aren't able to summon me, you need to know how to defend yourself, Darkyn started.

She'd been learning how to defend herself and watching how his people operated for a few days before the accident.

Your cousin is considering dating a man she'd have to defend in a dark alley.

No nishani in his bloodline had learned to defend herself or been exiled from her planet.

You know how to defend yourself, and you can turn even a man into a rock with your magic.

The others…she wondered if Lankha could defend her.

But she might need to know how to defend herself.

We can defend ourselves at length.

They wished to be ready to defend themselves, if the soldiers should try to do them harm.

Katie whipped around the breakfast bar, eyes roving the kitchen for the knife block or something with which to defend herself.

Carmen had reason to know Alex could and would defend himself admirably.

The human senses that made her gasp at the colors of spring flowers were also ill-made to defend them against Immortals and deities.

There was no way to defend her moral objections without seeding doubt in his mind.

She couldn't defend herself, let alone you.

When was the last time you had to use a gun to defend yourself on our land?

I believe the last time I used a gun on this place was to defend you – from a bear.

They had to defend their family and home.

That arousing of the people by their sovereign and his call to them to defend their country--the very incitement which was the chief cause of Russia's triumph in so far as it was produced by the Tsar's personal presence in Moscow--was suggested to the Emperor, and accepted by him, as a pretext for quitting the army.

He was a man of war and battle, but he had never been a man to prey on those unable to defend themselves.

He was summoned before the magistrates of Utrecht to defend himself against charges of irreligion and slander.

Here he was shut in by a superior force of Spaniards, and made preparations to defend himself until relieved by the army which Orange was collecting on the eastern frontier.

Lincoln's inaugural address declared the Union perpetual and acts of secession void, and announced the determinatiojl of the government to defend its authority, and to hold forts and places yet in its possession.

The leader writer of the Indy jumps to defend not free speech but the restriction of free speech when someone might be offended.

Hershel Shanks is a magazine editor, who feels he has to defend the historicity of the bible against the attacks of scholars.

They could not see the speeding horse, but they heard the clatter of its hoofs far down the road, and they understood the cry, "Up! up! and defend yourselves!"

When the Revolutionary War began he was one of the first to hurry to Boston to help the people defend themselves against the British soldiers.

The way to end war is not to set up some big world government or eliminate nation-states, which will always retain the right to take unilateral military action to defend themselves.

And why were all efforts exhausted and six thousand men sacrificed to defend it till late at night on the twenty-fourth?

Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

Vasilchikov and Platov had already seen the count and explained to him that it was impossible to defend Moscow and that it would have to be surrendered.

Reaching Pavia at Christmas 961, the king promised to defend and respect the church.

She had done all she could to defend her former position.

Terry, who in turn was shot and killed by a United States deputy marshall appointed to defend Justice Field against the carrying out of Terry's often-expressed threats.

The freedom of Papebroch's criticism made him many enemies, and he had often to defend himself against their attacks.

Kuroki entrenched himself carefully about Feng-hwang-cheng, intending, if attacked by the Russian main army, to defend to the last extremity the ground and the prestige gained on the 1st of May.

His policy now was to retire on Liao-Yang as slowly as possible and to defend himself in a series of concentric prepared positions.

Kuroki with only a portion of the 1st Army was left to defend at least 15, m.