defense
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
law
lifestyle
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English defens, defense, from Old French defens, defense, from Late Latin dēfēnsa (“protection”). Displaced native Old English bewering. The verb is from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: defenses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: defence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: defenses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: defensing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: defensed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: defensed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: defence
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: An argument in support or justification of something.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: to come to someone's defense
gloss: An argument in support or justification of something.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: An argument in support or justification of something.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: Department of Defense
gloss: A prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To employ defensive tactics (so as to block).
pos: verb
tags: US
examples: In fact, there is an increase in the effectiveness of the Five Cutter Offense when teams put pressure on, instead of sagging or switching in an attempt to defense the attack successfully.
But the Buffs’ coaching staff made some adjustments in the way they defensed the Heights’ vaunted veer-option offense, and after being bullied around for 271 yards in the first half, yielded only 140 in the second half.
“It was most important to start the second half right,” Tennessee coach Donnie Tyndall said. “They dug in and defensed the right way.”
Synonyms: defence
defense
fortification
guard
preservation
protection
safeguard
shield
ward
Antonyms: offense
prosecution
attack
Related words: defend
Derived words: air defense
air-defense
antidefense
anti-slut defense
Apartheid Defense League
attack is the best form of defense
biodefense
black rage defense
chemical defense
Chewbacca defense
civil defense
counterdefense
cyberdefense
DEFCON
defense attorney
defense in abatement
defense-independent pitching statistics
defense in depth
defense lawyer
defenseless
defense mechanism
defense wound
defensin
defensive
defensiveness
eco-defense
ecodefense
gay panic defense
homosexual panic defense
immunodefense
man-to-man defense
Matrix defense
misdefense
nondefense
Nuremberg defense
orbital defense platform
Pac-Man defense
personal defense weapon
prevent defense
self-defense
self-defense wound
Shaggy defense
space defense
special defense
the best defense is a good offense
thesis defense
tower defense
trans panic defense
zone defense
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: պաշտպանություն
roman: paštpanutʻyun
lang: Bulgarian
word: отбра́на
roman: otbrána
lang: Bulgarian
word: отбрани́телни съоръже́ния
roman: otbranítelni sǎorǎžénija
lang: Catalan
word: defensa
lang: Catalan
word: protecció
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 防禦物 /防御物
roman: fángyùwù
lang: Czech
word: obrana
lang: Danish
word: forsvar
lang: Dutch
word: verdediging
lang: Dutch
word: verweer
lang: Faroese
word: verja
lang: Finnish
word: puolustus
lang: French
word: défense
lang: Georgian
word: თავდაცვა
roman: tavdacva
lang: German
word: Verteidigung
lang: Greek
word: άμυνα
roman: ámyna
lang: Hebrew
word: הגנה
roman: hagana
lang: Hungarian
word: védelem
lang: Italian
word: difesa
lang: Central Kurdish
word: بەرگری
roman: bergrî
lang: Latin
word: mūnīmen
lang: Latin
word: mūnīmentum
lang: Latin
word: dēfēnsa
lang: Macedonian
word: одбрана
roman: odbrana
lang: Māori
word: whakarurunga
lang: Old English
word: bewering
lang: Polish
word: obrona
lang: Portuguese
word: defesa
lang: Portuguese
word: escudo
lang: Romanian
word: apărare
lang: Russian
word: защи́та
roman: zaščíta
lang: Russian
word: оборо́на
roman: oboróna
lang: Russian
word: оборони́тельные сооруже́ния
roman: oboronítelʹnyje sooružénija
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: о̏дбрана
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: о̏брана
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȍdbrana
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȍbrana
lang: Spanish
word: defensa
lang: Swedish
word: försvar
lang: Swedish
word: värn
lang: Vietnamese
word: phòng thủ
lang: Vietnamese
word: phòng ngự
lang: Vietnamese
word: phòng vệ
lang: Czech
word: obrana
lang: Dutch
word: verweer
lang: Finnish
word: puolustus
lang: Finnish
word: puolustelu
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐍉𐌽𐍃
roman: sunjōns
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀπολογία
roman: apología
lang: Hungarian
word: védés
lang: Hungarian
word: védekezés
lang: Hungarian
word: védelem
lang: Italian
word: difesa
lang: Macedonian
word: одбрана
roman: odbrana
lang: Polish
word: obrona
lang: Portuguese
word: defesa
lang: Romanian
word: apărare
lang: Russian
word: защи́та
roman: zaščíta
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: о̏дбрана
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: о̏брана
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȍdbrana
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȍbrana
lang: Spanish
word: descargo
lang: Swedish
word: försvar
lang: Urdu
word: صَفائی
roman: safāī
lang: Vietnamese
word: phản biện