Antonym: offence, prosecution. Similar words: sit on the fence, deference, defend, defense, defender, defensive, defendant, indefensible. Meaning: [dɪ'fens] 
n. 1. (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires 2. (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring 3. the defendant and his legal advisors collectively 4. an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack 5. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions 6. the justification for some act or belief 7. a structure used to defend against attack 8. a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him 9. military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies 10. protection from harm.
n. 1. (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires 2. (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring 3. the defendant and his legal advisors collectively 4. an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack 5. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions 6. the justification for some act or belief 7. a structure used to defend against attack 8. a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him 9. military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies 10. protection from harm. 
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121) The judge remarked that ignorance was not a valid defence.
122) Lacking sovereignty, they could organise no defence against their oppressors.
123) When her younger brother was being bullied she leapt to his defence.
124) We had to battle very hard and our defence worked overtime to keep us in the game.
125) The town walls were built as a defence against enemy attacks.
126) The British could afford to reduce defence spending in peacetime without excessive risk.
127) Whenever anyone criticizes her husband, she immediately jumps to his defence.
128) Major has a good defence and believes he will win the case.
129) The problem lay in the large amounts spent on defence.
130) Her defence was that she was somewhere completely different at the time of the crime.
131) Shortly afterwards, cuts in defence spending forced the aerospace industry to retrench.
132) She's actually rather insecure, and her rudeness is just a defence mechanism.
133) As the killings took place outside British jurisdiction, the Ministry of Defence could not be held liable.
134) The defence party divided his backyard from that of his sister's.
135) The defence of formalism is always that it serves to control an excess of feeling.
136) Some MPs refused to follow / toe the party line on defence.
137) The defence pleaded insanity(sentencedict.com), but the defendant was found guilty and sentenced.
138) Royal taxation usually had to be for the defence of the realm.
139) The Guyana Defence Force is engaged in flushing out illegal Brazilian miners operating in the country.
140) The Secretary of Defence has said that he would not stand by and let democracy be undermined.
141) A large proportion of the defence budget has been re-routed to education.
142) The team has a strong attack, but its defence is weak.
143) The defence was that the records of the interviews were fabricated by the police.
144) The sheer size of these dinosaurs was their main defence.
145) The army ,(www.Sentencedict.com) navy and airforce are all controlled by the Ministry of Defence.
146) The body has natural defence mechanisms to protect it from disease.
147) The government and the opposition parties have clashed over the cuts in defence spending.
148) The cup holders began their defence of the trophy in fine style.
149) We will put military muscle into the mutual defence pact.
150) The French Defence Minister is to visit Japan later this month for talks with his Japanese opposite number.
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