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defendverb to drive danger or attack away froma solemn oath to defend the mother country at any cost bulwark, cover, fence, fend, forfend, guard, keep, protect, safeguard, screen, secure, shield, ward avert, preventoppose, resist, withstandbattle, contend, fight, warconserve, preserve, savebuffer, palisade, picket, wall stand up for assail, assault, attack bombard, stormbeset, besiege, overruncapitulate, cave, submit, yield to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objectionsshe will pigheadedly defend any claim regardless of all evidence to the contrary justify, maintain, support, uphold advocate, champion, espouseconfirm, vindicate, warrantaffirm, assert, aver, avouch, avow, claim, contend, insist, plead, proclaim, profess, protest, stateargue, debate, discussemphasize, stress, underline, underscore stand up for, stick up for abandon, abjure, forsake, recant, retract, take back, withdrawreverse, switchcontrovert, disprove, rebut, refute defend, protect, shield, guard, safeguard mean to keep secure from danger or against attack.defend denotes warding off actual or threatened attack.defend the country protect implies the use of something (such as a covering) as a bar to the admission or impact of what may attack or injure.a hard hat to protect your head shield suggests protective intervention in imminent danger or actual attack.shielded her eyes from the sun with her hand guard implies protecting with vigilance and force against expected danger.White House entrances are well guarded safeguard implies taking precautionary protective measures against merely possible danger.our civil liberties must be safeguarded Cf. maintain. in the 14th century |