Defending
/dəˈfɛndɪŋ/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An act of defence.
"[…] his wondrous laudations and defendings of the unfriended Turner […]"
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of defend form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring wordnet
Example
More examples"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."