defend
IPA: dɪfˈɛnd
verb
- (transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
- (transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
- (transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
- (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
- (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.
- (poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
- (transitive, obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
- (transitive, obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
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Examples of "defend" in Sentences
- He was the defending the country.
- None of the defendants testified.
- Angle was the defending the title.
- The jury found for the defendants.
- Igel was the defendant in the case.
- The soldier massacres the defenders.
- The defendants demurred to the petition.
- They fiercely defended their motherland.
- The defenders attempt to defend the bank and the gold.
- Attorney are reluctant for the defendant be the affiant.
- Israel, and every country in the world, has a right to defend is borders.
- Furthermore, the most difficult offensive maneuver to defend is the screen.
- DIFFICULT TO DEFEND: The hardest offensive player to defend is the one who is moving.
- I'm of the attitude having an opinion you aren't willing to test and defend is all but worthless.
- And the only way your sheep can defend is to once again say "but Bush did it" and offer no proof.
- The only premise I have to defend is that the policies were somehow connected to helping the country.
- Jeffy Bovine might be still lurking around, or will come tomorrow with yet another moniker to again defend some teabagging domestic terrorist like himself.
- It is great to see these well kept stiff-armed beauties in actions and it makes me nostalgic to my days of building cardboard bases for my Rebels to defend from the evil Empire.
- Though Bush publicly denounced the leak, an unnamed Republican aide on Capitol Hill told the New York Times that the underlying White House strategy was to slime and defend, that is to slime Wilson and defend Bush.
- When an American takes lawful action to defend from the crime perpetrated by the intellectual property rights owner, the intellectual property rights owner can use intellectual property laws to sue people for interfering with property rights when they try and stop a theft.
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