We have to defend our country from the foreign aggression.
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Defend
//dɪˈfɛnd//
Synonyms for "defend" (132 found)
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Closest matches (27)
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Related words (66)
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17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Antonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
8 entriesderived
9 entriesentails
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
16 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
121 translations across 78 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- mbroj verb (ward off attacks against)
- ru verb (ward off attacks against)
Arabic
2 entries- حامى verb (ward off attacks against)
- دَافَعَ verb (ward off attacks against)
Armenian
1 entries- պաշտպանել verb (ward off attacks against)
Aromanian
1 entries- apãr verb (ward off attacks against)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- müdafiə etmək verb (ward off attacks against)
- qorumaq verb (ward off attacks against)
Bangi
1 entries- batela verb (ward off attacks against)
Belarusian
2 entries- абараня́ць verb (ward off attacks against)
- абарані́ць verb (ward off attacks against)
Bengali
1 entries- রক্ষা করা verb (ward off attacks against)
Bulgarian
2 entries- браня́ verb (ward off attacks against)
- защита́вам verb (ward off attacks against)
Burmese
1 entries- ကာကွယ် verb (ward off attacks against)
Catalan
2 entries- defendre verb (ward off attacks against)
- defensar verb (ward off attacks against)
Chickasaw
1 entries- ittafama verb (ward off attacks against)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 保衛 /保卫 verb (ward off attacks against)
- 守衛 /守卫 verb (ward off attacks against)
- 捍衛 /捍卫 verb (ward off attacks against)
Church Slavic
1 entries- бранити verb (ward off attacks against)
Czech
1 entries- bránit verb (ward off attacks against)
Dalmatian
1 entries- defendar verb (ward off attacks against)
Danish
1 entries- forsvare verb (ward off attacks against)
Dutch
1 entries- verdedigen verb (ward off attacks against)
Esperanto
2 entries- defendi verb (ward off attacks against)
- protekti verb (ward off attacks against)
Estonian
1 entries- kaitsma verb (ward off attacks against)
Finnish
1 entries- puolustaa verb (ward off attacks against)
French
1 entries- défendre verb (ward off attacks against)
Galician
1 entries- defender verb (ward off attacks against)
Georgian
2 entries- დაცვა verb (ward off attacks against)
- მოგერიება verb (ward off attacks against)
German
1 entries- verteidigen verb (ward off attacks against)
Greek
3 entries- αμύνομαι verb (ward off attacks against)
- υπεραμύνομαι verb (ward off attacks against)
- υπερασπίζομαι verb (ward off attacks against)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- defann verb (ward off attacks against)
Hebrew
1 entries- הֵגֵן verb (ward off attacks against)
Hindi
1 entries- रक्षा करना verb (ward off attacks against)
Hungarian
2 entries- megvéd verb (ward off attacks against)
- véd verb (ward off attacks against)
Icelandic
1 entries- verja verb (ward off attacks against)
Irish
1 entries- cosain verb (ward off attacks against)
Italian
2 entries- difendere verb (ward off attacks against)
- proteggere verb (ward off attacks against)
Japanese
2 entries- 守る verb (ward off attacks against)
- 防ぐ verb (ward off attacks against)
Kazakh
1 entries- қорғау verb (ward off attacks against)
Khmer
1 entries- ការពារ verb (ward off attacks against)
Korean
1 entries- 방어하다 verb (ward off attacks against)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- коргоо verb (ward off attacks against)
Lao
1 entries- ປ້ອງກັນ verb (ward off attacks against)
Latin
4 entries- defensō verb (ward off attacks against)
- dēfendō verb (ward off attacks against)
- supersum verb (ward off attacks against)
- teneō verb (ward off attacks against)
Latvian
1 entries- aizstāvēt verb (ward off attacks against)
Lingala
1 entries- batela verb (ward off attacks against)
Lithuanian
1 entries- ginti verb (ward off attacks against)
Macedonian
2 entries- брани verb (ward off attacks against)
- заштитува verb (ward off attacks against)
Malay
1 entries- membela verb (ward off attacks against)
Mongolian
1 entries- хамгаалах verb (ward off attacks against)
Māori
3 entries- wawao verb (ward off attacks against)
- whakangungu verb (ward off attacks against)
- whakawawao verb (ward off attacks against)
Norman
1 entries- d'fendre verb (ward off attacks against)
Norwegian
3 entries- beskytte verb (ward off attacks against)
- forsvare verb (ward off attacks against)
- verne verb (ward off attacks against)
Occitan
1 entries- defendre verb (ward off attacks against)
Old English
1 entries- bewerian verb (ward off attacks against)
Old Norse
1 entries- verja verb (ward off attacks against)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قوریمق verb (ward off attacks against)
Pashto
1 entries- مدافعه کول verb (ward off attacks against)
Persian
1 entries- دفاع کردن verb (ward off attacks against)
Polish
1 entries- bronić verb (ward off attacks against)
Portuguese
2 entries- defender verb (ward off attacks against)
- proteger verb (ward off attacks against)
Quechua
1 entries- amachay verb (ward off attacks against)
Romanian
1 entries- apăra verb (ward off attacks against)
Russian
4 entries- бере́чь verb (ward off attacks against)
- защити́ть verb (ward off attacks against)
- защища́ть verb (ward off attacks against)
- оберега́ть verb (ward off attacks against)
Sanskrit
1 entries- रक्षति verb (ward off attacks against)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- braniti verb (ward off attacks against)
- бранити verb (ward off attacks against)
Sikkimese
1 entries- སྐྱོང་བོ verb (ward off attacks against)
Slovak
1 entries- brániť verb (ward off attacks against)
Slovene
1 entries- braniti verb (ward off attacks against)
Southern Altai
1 entries- корыыр verb (ward off attacks against)
Spanish
2 entries- defender verb (ward off attacks against)
- defensar verb (ward off attacks against)
Swedish
2 entries- försvara verb (ward off attacks against)
- värja verb (ward off attacks against)
Tajik
2 entries- дифоъ кардан verb (ward off attacks against)
- муҳофизат кардан verb (ward off attacks against)
Thai
1 entries- ป้องกัน verb (ward off attacks against)
Turkish
2 entries- korumak verb (ward off attacks against)
- savunmak verb (ward off attacks against)
Turkmen
2 entries- goramak verb (ward off attacks against)
- penalamak verb (ward off attacks against)
Ukrainian
4 entries- захисти́ти verb (ward off attacks against)
- захища́ти verb (ward off attacks against)
- оборони́ти verb (ward off attacks against)
- обороня́ти verb (ward off attacks against)
Urdu
1 entries- دفاع کرنا verb (ward off attacks against)
Uyghur
1 entries- مۇداپىئە قىلماق verb (ward off attacks against)
Uzbek
2 entries- himoya qilmoq verb (ward off attacks against)
- mudofaa qilmoq verb (ward off attacks against)
Vietnamese
3 entries- bảo vệ verb (ward off attacks against)
- che chở verb (ward off attacks against)
- chống giữ verb (ward off attacks against)
Welsh
1 entries- amddiffyn verb (ward off attacks against)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
We must defend our freedom at all cost.
Source: tatoeba (28867)
Paris did her best to defend her liberties.
Source: tatoeba (35028)
Please defend me from such bad men.
Source: tatoeba (38896)
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