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Defending

//dəˈfɛndɪŋ// noun, verb

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

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