Definition of defend

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Defend (v. t.) To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies..

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Litigate :: Litigate (v. t.) To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause..
Contest :: Contest (v. t.) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground..
Garnishment :: Garnishment (n.) Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee..
Nonjoinder :: Nonjoinder (n.) The omission of some person who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant in a suit, or of some cause of action which ought to be joined..
Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
Defendant :: Defendant (a.) Making defense.
Propugner :: Propugner (n.) A defender; a vindicator.
Prophylactical :: Prophylactical (a.) Defending or preserving from disease; preventive.
Crossbill :: Crossbill () A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit..
Kamichi :: Kamichi (n.) A curious South American bird (Anhima, / Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and S
Patronage :: Patronage (v. t.) To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.
Champion :: Champion (v. t.) To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.
Ganocephala :: Ganocephala (n. pl.) A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes..
Defended :: Defended (imp. & p. p.) of Defen.
Appellee :: Appellee (n.) The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant.
Embankment :: Embankment (n.) The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
Defensory :: Defensory (a.) Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations..
Prevaricator :: Prevaricator (n.) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.
Nolo Contendere :: Nolo contendere () A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty..
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire..
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