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defend English

Meaning defend meaning

What does defend mean?

defend

— verb (= support) argue or speak in defense of She supported the motion to strike — verb be on the defensive; act against an attack — verb (= hold) protect against a challenge or attack Hold that position behind the trees! Hold the bridge against the enemy's attacks — verb (= fight, oppose) fight against or resist strongly The senator said he would oppose the bill Don't fight it! — verb (= champion) protect or fight for as a champion — verb (= represent) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial Ms. Smith will represent the defendant — verb (= maintain) state or assert He maintained his innocence

Synonyms defend synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as defend?

defend English » English

protect guard preserve shield safeguard secure vindicate save prevent maintain ward off support watch over shelter champion stand for plead oppose hold hinder fight back advocate uphold stand up for stand up represent parry help hamper guard against fight down fight escort block assert turn aside side with sheltered resist redeem put up a plea plead for obstruct obscure keep justify garrison fortify forbid fend for

Topics defend topics

What do people use defend to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Defend
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Protect
Social behavior Law Trial

Defend against accusation
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Fight against something bad

Conjugation defend conjugation

How do you conjugate defend?

defend · verb

Examples defend examples

How do I use defend in a sentence?

Simple sentences

We have to defend our country at any cost.
Defend the Church.
I need to learn how to defend myself.
I have no choice but to defend myself.
I had no choice but to defend myself.
The giraffe did all she could to defend her calf.
I came here to defend Tom.
Don't defend the brat.
Paris did her best to defend her liberties.
Please defend me from such bad men.
That was the only way we could defend ourselves against all this terrible shooting.
Young men and women fought to defend their country.
Every person has a right to defend themselves.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
She's not here to defend herself against these accusations.
The militia was formed to defend citizens in an emergency.
Paris did its best to defend its liberties.
It is more difficult to defend oneself than to defend someone else. Those who doubt it may look at lawyers.
Tom is learning how to defend himself.
We must defend our freedom at all cost.
The natives have to defend their land against invaders.
If you try to defend the seniority-based corporate escalator these days all you'll get is flak from younger employees.
To defend myself, I had to tell a lie.
It's a fort built to defend the town from invasion.
Jonathan Swift would defend me.
I never imagined that my skills as a lawyer would be used to defend Tom.
You are not in a position to defend yourself.
They couldn't defend themselves.
Defend yourselves.
Defend yourself.

Movie subtitles

Don't worry, Sir, I'll defend you from these barbarians.
Not against Hagen Tronje, do you send me, Queen, but against your brothers who defend him with their lives!
It is not for me to suggest that any of you. should stand up and offer to defend his country. But I wonder if such a thing is going through your heads.
Are your mothers so weak that they cannot send a son. to defend the land which gave them birth?
It tried to defend itself but more hives had fallen.
HAVE YOU ANYONE HERE TO DEFEND YOU?
BUT I NO COULD GETTA SOMEBODY TO DEFEND ME.
You can't defend yourself by quoting folklore.
This may seem harsh but when a mob takes it upon itself to identify, try, condemn and punish it is a destroyer of a government that patriots died to establish and defend.
But no one can dare defend the lynching of an innocent man.
He must be made to defend himself before you arrive at a decision.
Why shouldn't she defend him?
We only want to and have to defend ourselves.
What would become of us if we could not defend our freedom?
Here is your title of ownership, a plow and a horse to go with it, and a rifle to defend yourself against those bastards.
We know how to defend ourselves.
We have to defend ourselves.
I'll only use it to defend my new friends if they're attacked.
People say it's God's vengeance because we didn't defend our land against the infidels.
I'll defend France.
Humanity will defend itself, and we will all end up perishing.
Defend yourself!
The cadets went to defend the palace.
And so, with the flames of war crackling along a two-thousand mile front, troops bitterly needed to defend Russia played parade for the Czar.
After a week. after thousands of men had spilled their blood to defend a few inches of earth.
Although gravely wounded by the knife that had pierced her, the victim tried to defend herself with a small revolver.
It is not for me to suggest that any of you. should stand up and offer to defend his country.
It tried to defend itself but more hives had fallen. And swarms of bees had descended on it.
Have you anyone to defend you? It's no use.
I offered 18 dollars, but I no find somebody to defend me.
Not a chance to defend ourselves.
Aren't you big enough to defend yourself?
So you know he's the old-fashioned type, who'd die to defend his honor, or who'd kill for it.
You're trying to defend her. But that's what I'm doing.
I wouldn't let him defend me if it was for stealing an apple.
To defend yourself against wild beasts.
I have to defend myself.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
You need my arm to defend you, my strength to protect you.

News and current affairs

To be viable, a state needed to be large enough to defend itself and to constitute a relatively self-contained economic market.
But many politicians defend Stanculescu; among them, the current Defense Minister Victor Babiuc, former President Ion Iliescu, and most top army officers.
Now is the time - with the world watching America fight to defend its values - for the worst excesses of its criminal justice system to be addressed.
Both political parties serve their rich campaign contributors, while proclaiming that they defend the middle class.
They refuse to come to the aid of the destitute, and defend tax cuts at every opportunity.
That means that both parties increasingly defend the interests of the rich, though Republicans do so slightly more than Democrats.
Since citizens' militias are anachronistic, gun owners now use the second amendment merely to defend individual gun ownership, as if that somehow offers protection against tyranny.
Brainwashed Iraqi forces, and a regime complicit at every level in Saddam's crimes, would be fighting not to hang on to a conquest (as in the Gulf War of 1991) but to defend their homeland.
Many brave Iranians were prepared to risk their lives to defend their beliefs.
Jews outside Israel feel that they have to defend - right or wrong - the country that, after all, is their ultimate hope of security.
After all, few political systems can defend against those, like Saudi Arabia's Islamic radicals, who claim that they can preserve the system and its religious values more effectively than the current rulers.
The more trade unions defend existing wage structures, and the lower productivity growth is, the longer the slump will be.
The US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America have constructed a regional legal framework, which must not be abandoned, to defend democratic rule and human rights in the hemisphere.
Women are not necessarily better than men at governing, but they often have different perspectives and habits of engagement that can be essential for cutting through the standoffs created by the need to defend male egos.
In these desperate circumstances, North Korea's leaders clung to their strategy of developing nuclear weapons as a last resort to defend the security of their regime.
Israel will defend itself if Iran continues to call for its destruction.
These powerful forces, many of which operate anonymously under US law, are working relentlessly to defend those at the top of the income distribution.
Yet no country can rely on soft power alone to defend its interests.
That is why, today, it is critically important, in the face of a dark force that is rising, swelling, and unfurling in Europe, to defend Angela Merkel.
African intellectuals, artists, and civil rights activists did not feel the need to express solidarity with fellow Africans and to defend the rights of the downtrodden.

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