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Definition of defending : of Defend

Synonyms:

defensive

covering, safeguarding, supporting, securing, upholding, countering, barring, protecting, shielding, arguing, sustaining, guarding, resisting, fending, backfiring, saving, buffering, sheltering, policing, counterattacking, opposing, warding, barricading, averting, screening

dissenting, wrestling, quarreling, facing, vying, confronting, antagonizing, hassling, contending, bickering, protesting, clashing, contrasting, brawling, struggling, withstanding, wrangling, conflicting, standing, encountering, disputing

confessing, atoning, pleading, regretting, repenting, apologizing

contravening, belying, overturning, disproving, negating, parrying, confuting, contradicting, subverting

echoing, answering, objecting, expounding, rebutting, reacting, retorting, refuting, denying, explaining, replying, returning, acknowledging, justifying, responding

maintaining, conserving, preserving

Usage examples:

• His agitation was now extreme, for he had no power of defending himself, and while he remained in this state of torturing expectation, a blaze of light burst upon the stair- case beneath him. - "A Sicilian Romance", Ann Radcliffe.
• " Of hiding," said he, " will I hear naught, but of defending am I full fain. - "The Blue Flower, and Others", Henry van Dyke.
• Two got shot defending the station, but after they surrendered to a quarter of their number we let them all go home. - "The New Germany", George Young.