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defend

verb

/dɪˈfɛnd/

Meaning

To protect someone or something from harm or attack.

The lawyer worked hard to defend her client.

defend one's honor

protect, guard, shield, support, justify

attack, abandon, betray

defend a case, defend the goal, defend human rights

To excite or amuse, especially in a slightly sexual or playful way.

to act in a particular way; to conduct oneself

To judge something as less important or smaller than it really is.

to reach a conclusion by reasoning or inference

to place something in a context or interpret it in relation to its surroundings

To make clothes or fabric by interlocking loops of yarn with needles.