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defend
English
Etymology
From Middle English defenden, from Old French deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin d?fend? (“to ward off”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g??en-.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??f?nd/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??f?nd/, /di?f?nd/, /d??f?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Verb
defend (third-person singular simple present defends, present participle defending, simple past and past participle defended)
- (transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard.
- (transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
- (transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
- (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
- (sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
- (poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
- (transitive, obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- The vertue is, that neither steele, nor stone / The stroke thereof from entrance may defend […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- (transitive, obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:defend
Antonyms
- attack
Related terms
- defender
- defense, defence
- defensive
Translations
Anagrams
- fended
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defending
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??f?nd??/
- Rhymes: -?nd??
- Hyphenation: de?fend?ing
Verb
defending
- Present participle and gerund of defend.
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