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.
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151. Goltz has posted the best all-around score in the state this season and is favored to defend her all-around title.
152. Healey agreed to defend two young men, who were being framed in a local murder case.
153. One threatened to call out the National Guard to defend Atlanta's water rights.
154. Now Wigan are being asked to defend their world crown in Brisbane next February.
155. That stresses, above all, that one should defend first and attack second.
156. Unlike the Weimar Republic, the Bonn Republic is prepared to defend itself.
157. The rent reviewer sought to defend an action for negligence on the basis that he was an arbitrator or quasi-arbitrator.
158. How did people live in the camps, how did some survive, how did some defend themselves?
159. Queequeg says they are now married-meaning they are bosom friends who would defend each other to the death.
160. As they built in each new feature, they discussed how it would help to defend the castle from attackers.
161. Manges advised it would be best for Fort Wayne to wait and see whether those cities could defend their ordinances as constitutional.
162. Governments in the 1990s have sometimes found it difficult to gather the statistical information they need to make and defend policy.
163. Michael told the Old Bailey he had tried to defend his brother Lee, 13, before his father turned on him.
164. Fifth, it offered targets, such as the minimum wage, that were impossible to defend in the current climate.
165. In accordance with instructions, the officers took no action to defend themselves, although they were armed.
166. If the adventurers pursue the Harpies back to their lair, they will fight to the death to defend it.
167. The local people naturally defend their crops, usually with totally inadequate weapons such as ancient shotguns loaded with buckshot.
168. The toxins defend them against predators, and most interestingly against the effects of bacteria and fungi.
169. At the end of the summer, he must seek out and defend a territory.
170. Two small valleys left an isolated hill where a castle was built to defend the river crossing.
171. In the absence of these things, I seek to defend the present service as the best achievable.
172. The immune system has evolved to defend the individual against a diverse array of micro-organisms.
173. She was desperate to turn and watch him, to find out what he was doing,(sentencedict.com) defend herself if need be.
174. He and subsequent champions refused to defend their titles against blacks.
175. News organizations were quick to defend their policies, and some competitors saw the Fox announcement as a potential grab for publicity.
176. Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. Brian Tracy
177. Much easier to turn on poor folk like Gladys Brown, who couldn't defend themselves.
178. He decided to defend slavery as a domestic arrangement that lay beyond the scope of busybodies.
179. Membership also provides extra ammunition to defend the pound if currency markets take fright at the election result.
180. The minister can make a decision that a drug is too expensive and the drug companies have no right to defend themselves.