How To Defend Yourself In An Extreme Street Fight

Defend, protect, shield, guard, safeguard mean to keep secure from danger or against attack. Defend denotes warding off actual or threatened attack. To defend is to strive to keep safe by resisting attack:

Defend implies repelling or being ready to repel an attack: The army defended the border against the enemy. Definition of defend verb in oxford advanced learner's dictionary.

If you defend someone or something, you take action in order to protect them. Every man who could fight was now committed to defend the ridge. [verb noun] his courage in defending religious and.

Defend, guard, preserve, protect all mean to keep safe. The group defends [= protects] the rights of the poor. The company must defend its own interests.

Defend has different shades of meaning, but it always has the sense of protecting something — your ideas, for instance, or your title as world heavyweight champion.