Synonym: protect, safeguard, shield, support. Antonym: assail, attack, charge. Similar words: defender, defendant, defense, defensive, offender, refer, fence, offense. Meaning: [dɪ'fend] 
v. 1. argue or speak in defense of 2. be on the defensive; act against an attack 3. protect against a challenge or attack 4. fight against or resist strongly 5. protect or fight for as a champion 6. be the defense counsel for someone in a trial 7. state or assert.
v. 1. argue or speak in defense of 2. be on the defensive; act against an attack 3. protect against a challenge or attack 4. fight against or resist strongly 5. protect or fight for as a champion 6. be the defense counsel for someone in a trial 7. state or assert. 
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121. The union said they would take action to defend their members' jobs.
122. Many organisations seemed to have an in-built reluctance to defend their actions or even to provide a constructive and forceful image.
123. The Lakota were always a warrior people, and taking up arms to defend the nation is the traditional way.
124. John Gummer was not even on the Tory platform for a press conference to defend the Government's record on animal welfare.
125. Use deadly force to defend themselves or others from death or serious injury.
126. Even the actions taken by governments may be inadequate to defend the position of the weak in society.
127. He has also been ordered to defend against Ireland's Dave McAuley.
128. She had only meant to defend herself, but it had come out all wrong.
129. When it comes to crunch time, Bill Clinton digs in to defend the status quo.
130. Media groups invest huge sums on lobbying and in political donations to defend their interests.
131. This is widely understood as a call to arms to defend the movement against a takeover by Mr Klaus.
132. She has repeatedly tried to defend her husband against hostile criticism in the press.
133. In this chapter, I have sought to defend this concessive holist view by drawing attention to the explanatory interest underlying it.
134. They were forced, as never before, to defend themselves against the charge of illegitimacy.
135. Zanger said he never tried to defend himself against Baldwin and only tried to protect his camera with the videotape inside.
136. There is no advantage to be gained by Opposition Members seeking to defend the indefensible.
137. Those claimants undermine the claims of genuine asylum seekers, and no one would wish to defend them.
138. US troops in Panama will only be used to defend the Canal.
139. Diligently, even angrily, we express, discuss, and defend our ostensibly knowledgeable positions.
140. For this reason and no other, Gates is spending huge amounts of money to defend itself from a potentially catastrophic judgment.
141. The third strategy involves intermediate-sized males behaving opportunistically: they call from potential egg-laying sites but do not defend territories.
142. Some of them feel a need to defend this by writing indigestible, difficult to understand books that are incoherent.
143. If they take any other course of action they must be prepared to defend it.
144. X terminal makers simply can not imagine Sun not entering the business since it must defend its historical market(sentencedict.com/defend.html), the desktop.
145. The right to defend itself is an elementary right of every state.
146. It would cost the several insurance companies more than a million to defend the case.
147. Instead, the arsenal ship would have relied on other warships to defend it against missile attacks.
148. It was a pleasure to flog her, to defend her, to scrutinize, criticize and idolize her.
149. Sixty angry pickers, whose families have earned a living down the centuries, vowed to defend the 30-acre site.
150. Experience told him that a woman's natural instinct was to defend herself rather than to hurt the attacker.