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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181. He hopes to be fit to defend his Masters title at the end of next month and has begun light training.
182. We have helped support and defend this city for decades.
183. Defended flowers can therefore be exploited more efficiently and it can pay a sunbird to defend a territory.
184. Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. Malcolm X 
185. Locke is anxious to defend his political philosophy against the accusation that it encourages rebellion.
186. Much depends on the determination of workers to defend jobs and conditions, and factors like this may alter considerably over time.
187. Indeed, the responsibility and necessity for such action to defend children against parental mistreatment is strongly emphasised.
188. Lawyers are usually required to prepare cases and defend them.
189. Why had she even wasted time trying to defend herself?
190. Mr Parkinson is to defend the Government's stand at the Conservative Party conference next week.
191. He has a record to defend, just as Dole does.
192. A year on they acknowledge the problems, but are at pains to defend the good name of their community.
193. Anyone who dares defend this breakthrough speaks in hushed tones, fearing crank calls and canceled grants.
194. Some drugs spark off this emergency response and help their targets to defend themselves.
195. There she had been rudely thrown upon the hard ground and had been forced to defend herself.
196. Throughout his life he sought to defend an idea of Britishness that was becoming increasingly outmoded.
197. Key conflicts concern relationships between departments and the outside world; ministers are expected to help defend departmental interests.
198. Not that we would defend all of what passes or has passed for religion; far from it.
199. Mr Greenspan could, and would, defend himself by arguing that the world had changed dramatically over the intervening decade.
200. Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love. Ovid
201. A questioner in the studio audience asked the Labour MP to defend his party's recent statement.
202. Its stirring words aroused free men everywhere to defend the government.
203. We are perfect machines built to defend colonists on frontier worlds.
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204. Macarthy, the defence lawyer, found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable.
205. He is as determined to preserve his positive face here as he is to defend his negative face in scene three.
206. Players' union chief Taylor is expected to defend Durie at an appeal hearing in London.
207. Lemos resigned on March 25, allegedly in indignation at the failure of Barco to defend him against opposition charges.
208. The vital section for the south to defend was the left flank, which protected the routes to Seoul and Inchon.
209. Dara seized a kitchen knife and tried to defend himself, but the thugs overpowered him.
210. Close to the tree was a shattered tumbler, which police believe Elizabeth used to try to defend herself.