Defended is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFENDED in dictionary:

VERB:
• DEFEND, to protect
• resist an attack made on (someone or something); protect from harm or danger
• speak or write in favour of (an action or person); attempt to justify
• compete to retain (a title or seat) in a contest or election
• conduct the case for (the party being accused or sued) in a lawsuit
• (in sport) protect one's goal or wicket rather than attempt to score against one's opponents

Words related to DEFENDED

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Words that contain DEFENDED

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How to use DEFENDED in a sentence

• The chiefs who defended the country by their arms, compromised her by their arguments, and some of her best fighters were little better than pirates and bandits.
• Some of the first statesmen of England defended the colonists, and some of the best known men in the colonies defended England.
• They built frame cabins and defended their homes with much skill.
• His understanding will be defended by my statement, if his consistency of conduct be in some degree impaired.
• The fortress was taken, and Richard in his fury caused the stern old man who defended it and two of his sons to be put to death.
• It is defended by a fort and strong batteries, adequate to prevent a hostile landing.
• They learned indeed from a peasant that several bodies of Roundheads were advancing from various directions, and that Hardley House was strong and well defended.
• Arrian relates that there was a city called Cyropolis, situated on the Jaxartes, a place of great strength defended by very lofty walls, which had been founded by the Great Cyrus.
• They defended themselves by bringing accusations against Mary, and produced the Casket Letters and other documents in support of their assertions.
• He received a reply to this in the following September, informing him that the King had directed that he should be defended by the Crown lawyers.
• The Tyrolean riflemen, who were accustomed to bring down chamois from the mountain peaks, defended the bridge, and made terrible havoc in the Bavarian ranks.
• If Field defended him, there must be some very strong point in his favour, men argued.
• About noon the English happened to gain a breach, which the Governor himself defended with twenty-five soldiers.
• The town was defended by its inhabitants with the courage and perseverance which has pre-eminently distinguished the Spaniards in all ages in the defense of their walled towns.
• On the third reading it was defended, together with the whole conduct of government towards the Americans, by Lord Mansfield.
• The act was chiefly defended on the plea of necessity, arising from the powerful combination of European states formed against us after the treaty of Tilsit.
• He defended the alteration which Ferdinand had made in the succession, and which had been approved of by the Cortes, while they looked upon Don Carlos as a pretender.
• In conclusion, his lordship defended the conduct of government in not having provided more troops for the suppression of the insurrection.
• Helena with Las Cases he seriously defended this policy.
• Five hundred years ago the Serbs and Greeks defended Macedonia from the Turkish invasion.
• Let firing cease, then, that he may take possession of his prizes, or he will blow them into the air along with the crews who have so nobly defended them.
• Our men defended their ground against every attack.
• Chief Justice, the pure love of country which animated the deceased, and the zeal, as well as the talent, with which he explained and defended her institutions.
• Hopes revived but did not last long, and in the evening thick clouds defended the starry vault against all eyes.
• I must again thank my learned and able counsel for the able, zealous, and eloquent manner in which they defended me.
• I defended, too, The State of Oregon against the sharp And bloody tooth of the Australian sheep.
• On the 17th, the fleet anchored abreast four mud batteries, which defended a town, so entirely surrounded with wood, that it was impossible to form any idea of its size.
• The night was fast closing in, and it was so dark that they attacked and defended themselves almost instinctively.
• Cavour must have heard him often defended from the charge of patriotism.
• We do not find, on the Scottish borders, the splendid and extensive baronial castles, which graced and defended the opposite frontier.

Similar words containing FEND without suffix ed and without prefix de

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