Defences is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFENCES in dictionary:

VERB:
• DEFENCE, to make a defence, also DEFENSE
NOUN:
• the action of defending from or resisting attack
• an instance of defending a title or seat in a contest or election
• military measures or resources for protecting a country
• a means of protecting something from attack
• fortifications or barriers against attack
• the case presented by or on behalf of the party accused of a crime or being sued in a civil lawsuit
• the counsel for the defendant in a lawsuit
• the players in a team who defend the goal
• (in sport) the action or role of defending one's goal or wicket against the opposition
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to defense

Words related to DEFENCES

defence13 defenced15 defencing16

How to use DEFENCES in a sentence

• For the hundredth time the frail wooden defences opposed to millions of pounds were tested to the very extreme of their endurance.
• It was on high ground and strengthened by its own defences, and if they had continued defending it on all days alike, he could not have got possession of it.
• Amund, equipped with his native defences, put out his fleet against him.
• Iwar brought into the city, when he founded it, supplies that would serve amply for a siege, wishing the defences to be as good against scarcity as against an enemy.
• Deep, encircling valleys on the north and east completed the natural defences of this border village that became the altar of Jewish freedom.
• The best success for which he could hope would be, in breaking through the defences of Washington, to hold the capital for a day or even a few hours.
• It was the residence of the Bishops, and part of the buildings formed an angle of the city defences.
• But let us enter a little more into the details of frontier defences, and examine the character of the several systems which have been successively proposed or adopted.
• Those stones they took, each man carrying two or three, which, rushing forward, they piled up into scattered rough defences of about eighteen inches or two feet high.
• The defences of Rangoon had also to be arranged for.
• They rode cautiously around, without approaching the defences sufficiently nigh to occasion strife, but evidently having for their object originally an attack upon the wayfarer.
• The defences had been daily improved, and two successful sorties were made, in which many of the allies were killed and wounded.
• The French made but little progress until Marshal Lasnes took the command, and then the external defences of the city were quickly demolished.
• On arriving each division took up its assigned quarters, and the defences, which were strong enough before, were made still stronger.
• Nelson, always keen for a daring policy, had undertaken to attack the Danish defences with a squadron of twelve seventy-fours, and the frigates and bomb-vessels of the fleet.
• It was most interesting and instructive studying the elaborate system of the Hindenburg defences.
• The town of Rafa was soon occupied, and, in the course of the morning, our attack against the Turkish system of defences developed on every side.
• From the platform of the Fort the lines of our defences and the way the Turks attacked them stood out very clearly to a pair of field glasses.
• The isthmus was accounted a sufficient protection to it, and the defences were consequently weak.
• The rumor of a battle between the Japanese ships and the coast defences at San Francisco has gained considerable currency.
• Having but lately arrived, they had erected neither bastion nor bulwark, and their only defences were the outbuildings of the village.
• Altogether, though not so elaborate as one had been led to believe, the defences struck one as extremely practical and business-like.
• Caesar as usual was everywhere, with new schemes for the defences, new enthusiasm for his officers, new inspiration for his men.
• The defences, except at Lydenburg, were of the most meagre description.

Similar words containing FENCE without suffix s and without prefix de

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