noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An act of defence.

   "[…] his wondrous laudations and defendings of the unfriended Turner […]"

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of defend form-of, gerund, participle, present

Adjective

1. 1
   attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

defencedefensiveguardingpatrolprotectiveshielding

Example

More examples

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."

Related phrases

defending zone

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